David's Photos

Tomo's Family

David — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:29:37 GMT

Tomo's Family

Tomo's parents and grandparents.

Engagement Ceremony

David — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:27:31 GMT

Engagement Ceremony

Here's a picture of Tomo and I getting engaged in Japan.

Sensoji Pagoda

David — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:04:55 GMT

Sensoji Pagoda

Another shot of the temple complex

Sensoji Temple

David — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:56:41 GMT

Sensoji Temple

There's a temple in Asajusa that's a great cultural site to visit, and is easy to get to. Consequently, every team I've been to Japan with goes to check it out. So I've been there at least six times.

Tachikawa Train Station

David — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:52:01 GMT

Tachikawa Train Station

One of the busier stations in Japan, this is where we did most of our distribution around.

Jon and Maki Robison (My brother and his wife)

David — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:41:12 GMT

Jon and Maki Robison (My brother and his wife)

My brother is also with SEND, already in Japan as a missionary. I stayed at his house for the two and a half weeks I was there. His wife and my fiance also happen to be sisters. If anyone's interested in hearing how that all happened, send me an email and I'll let you know. Also here's a link to my brother's blog: http://www.xanga.com/grandmastermissiology

2008 Team Member Handing out a CD

David — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:33:42 GMT

2008 Team Member Handing out a CD

This is the fifth time I've been privilidged to go on this little short term trip to Japan. Ever December Campus Crusade for Christ teams up with the Jesus Film Project and a number of other organizations to coordinate a massive districution project in Tokyo, where tens of thousands of CDs that are sort of like multimedia tracts are handed out to Japanese people to help explain what Christmas is really all about.

Enganged! (Japanese Style)

David — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:56:02 GMT

Enganged! (Japanese Style)

Tomo and I

David — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:29:31 GMT

Tomo and I

Me and Tomo at the Grand Canyon in June, 2007.

We're Engaged!

David — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:42:02 GMT

We're Engaged!

Hey, she's got a ring on her finger.

Tomo's Ring

David — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:41:00 GMT

Tomo's Ring

Here's a picture of the ring I gave Tomo. With her Japanese teddy bear in the background.

Me

David — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:32:18 GMT

Me standing out as I usually do when in Japan.

Inside

David — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:31:35 GMT

Inside

A shot of the church service in progress. As you can see, most people dress somewhat formally, and what you can't see is that the songs are mostly Hymns sung with accompaniment by a church organ, much like many traditional churches here in the US.

Tachikawa Ekimae Kyoko

David — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:28:49 GMT

Tachikawa Ekimae Kyoko

The Church in Tachikawa that I've gon to work with 5 times ofver the last five years. Let's see if I can roughly translate the name:

Tachikawa = The name of the City in Tokyo
Ekimae = "Near the Station" or maybe "Accross from the Station"
Kyoko = "Church"

The near the station part usually gets a bit of a laugh from Japanese people, because it's usually attatched to the names of things like convinience stores, or Pachinko Parlors, it's almost more of a marketing term. So to use it to describe a church sounds funny. And it usually implies that whatever is "Ekimae" is within eyesight of said station. Now, the church is about three blokcks from Tachikawa station, one of the largest stations in Tokyo, however it's no longer visible. It was when it was built, but the surrounding area now has many much taller buildings.

If anyone who speaks Japanese can correct me on this, please do (Tomo, Jon, or Yoshie).

Ron

David — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:20:46 GMT

Ron

Ron, our team leader, and my old boss at Jesus Film, handing out CDs.

Monk

David — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:22:50 GMT

Monk

I'm not sure if this is a Buddhist or Shinto monk. THis was taken by one of our (daring) team memembers (these guys don't like their picture taken) at Asakusa, where there is both a prominent Buddist Temple, and Shinto Shrine.

School Girls

David — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:19:59 GMT

School Girls

Japanese School Girls in their British Navy inspired school uniforms.

MacanoDanolodo

David — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:18:42 GMT

MacanoDanolodo

Yes, they have Micky D's in Japan.

Bill

David — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:17:22 GMT

Bill

Bill, one of our team members, distributing on a walk way above the Shiodome Subway station, but below the monorail station.

Love Japan 2007 Team

David — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:14:44 GMT

Love Japan 2007 Team

This is our Team from December 2007. We distributed 16,000 multimedia CDs, containing Christmas Songs, Gospel Music, testimonies, and clips from the Jesus Film depicting the Christmas story.