Field Journal

Dispatches.

Notes and photographs from Japan, sent as they happen.

Back in the USA · Praying to return long-term

The team on a country road in Tsukuba, fields and mountains behind

Dispatch 04 · Tsukuba → Raleigh · Sept 19–25, 2026 The Call to Return

After three weeks in Japan, we didn't want to leave. But we know that God will send us back.

Shop signs and a construction crane against the sky

Dispatch 03 · Tokyo · Sept 12–18, 2026 From Strangers to Family

The people God has surrounded us with and the adventures that brought us closer together.

The dim interior of a city bus, a passenger silhouetted against the rain-streaked window

Dispatch 02 · Tsukuba · Sept 5–11, 2026 A Harvest Perspective

When Jesus said that the harvest was plentiful, He meant it!

Sunlight flaring through an airplane window in flight

Dispatch 01 · Raleigh → Tsukuba · Sept 2–4, 2026 Chasing the Son

Fourteen hours east into a morning that never ended — and a first walk out past the rice fields.

Dispatch 05 Coming soon.

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