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Following Jesus. Sharing his love.

A family of 17 churches, welcoming people of every background.

Our Heritage and Calling

Rooted in the Japanese Holiness movement, we share the gospel with people of every background and hold an abiding call to reach people of Japanese ancestry.

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Who we are

Many congregations. One body under Christ.

The OMS Holiness Church of North America is a conference of churches with English and Japanese-language ministries, gathered by a shared faith and a shared history.

Together we pray, train pastors, send short-term missionaries, and support one another—so each local church can faithfully share the good news of Jesus Christ.

Our history

From a small band in 1920 to churches across the Pacific.

The Conference began when a small group of young people founded the Los Angeles Holiness Church in 1920. A century of worship, wartime loss, and renewal followed. The papers, Bibles, and photographs of those first years are kept in the Kuzuhara Library.

Sepia photograph of seven pastors and church leaders posed outside a church building with a Japanese signboard.
Pastors and church leaders of the early Holiness church, outside their church building.Kuzuhara Library
Handwritten notebooks with Japanese entries laid out on a wooden shelf.
Los Angeles Church activity notes from 1920, with the sermon notes and diaries of Rev. Sadaichi Kuzuhara.Kuzuhara Library

Our Churches

Handwritten journals in the Kuzuhara Library archive

Our heritage

Kuzuhara Library

Our research center and archive preserves the papers of founding pastors and artifacts from the early Japanese Holiness movement in America.