I didn't set out to write about missions, Scripture, and the ordinary business of trying to live faithfully — it's just where the questions kept leading me.
Further Fields is where those questions land. Some posts here are data-driven — the state of the unreached world, what mission statistics actually tell us, where the church is making progress and where it isn't. Others are quieter: personal reflections on Scripture, on prayer, on the slow and often unglamorous work of trying to follow Jesus in ordinary life. I don't think those two things are as separate as they first appear. What we believe about the world's need for the gospel and how we live our own small, daily faith are usually asking the same question from different angles.
The name comes from John 4:35 — "look at the fields, for they are white for harvest" — and from the plain fact that most of the fields Jesus was talking about are farther away than the ones we tend to look at. Farther than our own neighborhoods. Farther than our comfort. Sometimes farther than we're willing to go, even in our thinking. This site is my attempt to keep looking anyway.
What you'll find here
- Reflections on Scripture and what it means to actually live it out
- Writing on the state of global missions — data, trends, and the stories behind the numbers
- Personal essays that don't fit neatly into either category, but felt worth writing down
What you won't find
A polished ministry brand or a tidy set of answers. This is a personal site, written by one person still working things out — not an organization, and not a substitute for your own study, your own church, or your own wrestling with these questions.
If something here is useful, encouraging, or even just makes you think differently for a minute, that's the whole aim.
Have a question, a correction, or just want to say hello? hello@furtherfields.org