Kiyoma Yumiyama (弓山喜代馬; 1900–2002) was one of the charter members of Nihon Assenbuliizu obu Goddo Kyodan (Japan Assemblies of God/JAG), its first general superintendent, and the first president of JAG Bible School in Tokyo. He mentored other Pentecostal ministers in Japan as well.

Yumiyama was born in a rural village of Ehime on Shikoku Island on August 10, 1900. His family was one of the distinguished clans of the village with a traditional Japanese Buddhist-Shintoist background. He was the third son of the family and had five sibling…