Pastor Makio Haitaka was born in Kumamoto Prefecture. He became a Christian during his freshman year at Soka University where he studied in the Law Department. He went to seminary school at Tokyo Seminar School and was ordained in 1981 at Saitama Evangelical Free Church.
He was sent as a missionary to Hiroshima in 1986 by the EFC Council of Japan and he started Koyo Chapel. Today Pastor Haitaka still leads the Hiroshima Evangelical Free Church and is also very active in the Christian community in Japan.
Pastor Haitaka enjoys reading and tennis. He and his wife, Keiko, have two grown children: Juunichi and Megumi.
