On Nicknames

February 16, 2019

My birthday was a few days ago (yep, happy belated birthday to me). I was riding a train with my family when I opened fb and saw a message on my wall from my aunt. It was short and sweet: “Happy birthday, Roo!” She is perhaps the only one who still calls me by that nickname. And something about it gave me the feels. I don’t know how old I was when my dad started calling me Roo...2? 3? From him it spread far and wide - my family, my friends, my teachers, everyone called me Roo. (Except my mom.
Fujisan and Clouds

August 16, 2018

Friends of ours invited us to join them at a cabin they were renting for a few days. Another mission agency owns a property right by a lake near Mt. Fuji (or Fujisan in Japanese). Although 6 or so hours south of us, it is at a higher elevation and is significantly cooler (by 10-15 degrees at least. And a lot less humid). For our friends coming from Tokyo, it must have been quite a shock to their system (I just checked. Real feel at this moment is 114. Blech!). Before going, my weather app
Missionary A

June 18, 2018

What just happened? The scene: I was at a seminar with a group of young Japanese and American Christians. Robert was leading a short session on strengths finder (a tool by Gallup. Interesting stuff). Our mission uses and talks about this tool a bit, and Robert and I have found it to be helpful vocabulary to understand why we do what we do/process the way we process/react the way we react. I took the test in grad school (8 or 9 years ago) and still feel like I have a lot to unpack and learn
Another 3.11 story

March 07, 2018

My friend came over for lunch yesterday (a week ago, actually)…which was leftover soup, not quite enough leftover chicken in wraps, and leftover brownies. I felt like a dud of a host considering the awesome food I’m served when I eat at my Japanese friends’ homes. But I digress. B went to sleep, and we went to the couch with our brownies (did I mention that I dropped hers on the floor? Yeah). I don’t know how the subject came up – I certainly didn’t bring it up – but she shared with me a little

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We are Robert, Roberta, Joseph, Benjamin, and Anderson, and we currently serve in partnership with Shiogama Bible Baptist Church in Miyagi, Japan. Our desire is to come alongside the church in Japan and be an encouragement to it in sharing the love of Christ.

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