 One of the first people Furuta met was Reverend Hisakichi Terasawa, an Episcopalian minister who had been enlisted by Dr. Ernest Adolphus Sturge and Reverend Joseph Inazawa to help establish a Japanese mission in Orange County.Reverend Terasawa began meeting with Japanese laborers in Wintersburg-area agricultural fields in 1902.Upon the advice of Reverend Terasawa, Furuta saved money to buy land.