Blog
Reaching and Resourcing
In a previous blog post, I reintroduced Drawbridge Creations, talking about why we’re working to reach Japan and why we’re using manga to do it. As a follow-up, in this post and the next I want to revisit our vision statement and talk about some of our goals, hopes and dreams. Our vision is: To...
Video Interview with two of our Collaborators
https://youtu.be/kKC2kfi5gPQ This video features comments from two of the artists who collaborated with us on our manga project Waypoints: Tomi Yoshikwa and Masiu. If you saw the videos of them on the Waypoints blog, this video is different. In it, we ask them about their journeys as Christian...
(Re)Introducing Drawbridge Creations
Welcome (back?) to DrawbridgeCreations.com! We’ve been making lots of new connections lately, so for those who might be new to our ministry, or those who haven’t been here in for a while, here’s a brief (re)introduction to Drawbridge Creations, brought to you in convenient question and answer...
Cross-Cultural Opportunities for Christian Creatives
Drawbridge Creations is looking to expand our team! As we approach the one-year mark since launching our ministry with our first project, Waypoints, we have a lot to thank God for — our financial and prayer partners, the freelance artists we get to collaborate with, the amount of content we’ve...
Waypoints Season Two is Here!
Waypoints is an online manga series, featuring short stories inspired by the Gospels — stories of lives changed by encounters with Jesus. During our first season, eight manga were serialized over the course of eight months, each story told from a unique point-of-view, each story illustrated by one...
Waypoints Artist Intro — Tomi Yoshikawa
Waypoints season two starts on May 6! Introducing our latest collaborator, who will be illustrating one of our upcoming manga: Tomi Yoshikawa is an international illustrator and designer based here in Japan, who has also published work under the pen name Tomi Kichi. Tomi comes from...
Drawbridge Goals for 2022
2022 is well under way, so it seems like high time to share a little bit about what we’re planning for the year. Most of it involves continuing and expanding what we’ve started with Waypoints, but of course is all related to fulfilling our vision to bridge the gap between Church and culture;...
New Year’s Drawbridge Dispatch
Note: This is the latest Drawbridge Dispatch -- our periodic update for prayer partners. We don't always post these to the blog, so if you'd like to receive these updates by email, please click HERE to sign up! Now, on with the update... Hi everyone, Happy New Year! I just wanted to give you a...
Drawbridge Creations Video Update – Fall 2021
Thank you for being a part of our ministry through your prayers and giving! Please take two minutes to watch this short video for an important update on Drawbridge Creations. As we said in the video, we are hoping to raise the rest of our project fund before the end of this year. If we can get...
Waypoints Artist Intros 5 — Masiu
This is the fifth entry in a series of blog posts introducing the cartoonists who are collaborating with us on our online manga series Waypoints. Here’s another collaborator… Masiu is Japanese. She grew up with watching the anime of Studio Ghibli and the TV series World Masterpiece Theatre. She...