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
Heavy Conversations

February 22, 2018

Yet again, my heart is heavy. Today, I went to the kid play area a 2-minute walk from our house (where we go 2-7 times a week). As soon as I got there, one of the staff told me that there were some moms interested in English sitting in a side room. Eh. English is great, but, yo, I’m about to have a baby and don’t feel like I’m in the position to think about adding stuff to my schedule right now. I greeted them preparing to be polite, get their information, and make absolutely no promises of
Cinnamon Buns and Sadness

February 07, 2018

Today (2/5) started entirely too early. Why did two obviously still tired boys decide to wake up at 530am (and not go back down)? R and B left for a Super Bowl party by train at 7am, and J and I played until his bus came at 850am. I then drove to Ishinomaki to watch my first football game of the season. (Not entirely true. I went for the food.) I arrived to a die-hard Eagles fan screaming over a touchdown and had a panic moment before I remembered that I was at a Super Bowl party (“Is everyone

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We are Robert, Roberta, Joseph, and Benjamin, 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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