Who?
Founded by Rob and Emily Alsobrook, Redeemer Mission is a registered nonprofit organization centered on sharing the love and message of Jesus Christ through cultural engagement, business initiatives, hospitality, and long-term relationship-building across cultural boundaries.
For more than two decades, our family has been involved in international cultural exchange initiatives, artistic collaboration, educational endeavors, and community engagement throughout regions including Eastern Europe, Latin America, China, the Korean Peninsula, and Japan. Along the way, these experiences have created opportunities to build meaningful friendships with people from a wide range of religious, cultural, and ideological backgrounds.
Rob Alsobrook serves as the primary teaching and media voice behind Redeemer Mission. With backgrounds in the arts, education, business (real estate & construction), theology, and cross-cultural engagement, he focuses his work on addressing theological and worldview questions with clarity and compassion. His ministry includes long-form teaching content, writing, art exhibitions, and public engagement both online and in person. Rob holds an MFA and a BA in Art and Psychology, and has 25 years of business and entrepreneurial experience. He is currently pursuing a Master of Applied Theology degree from Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri.
Emily Alsobrook has long been involved in hospitality, cultural exchange, relationship-building, and practical ministry support through international engagement and community development. Together, our family seeks to create spaces where genuine relationships, meaningful conversations, and faithful witness can flourish naturally over time. Emily holds an MBA and a BS in Business Administration from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
Today, Redeemer Mission continues this work from Tokyo, Japan, where we are actively building friendships and engaging communities among both the Japanese and Korean diaspora through the arts, conversation, hospitality, business initiatives, discipleship, and Scripture-centered ministry.
At its core, Redeemer Mission is not built around celebrity, personality, or institutionalism. It is rooted in a simple conviction:
… that Jesus Christ is worthy to be shared faithfully, that Scripture is sufficient and true, and that people from every culture and background deserve the opportunity to hear Christ’s message clearly and compassionately.
What?
Redeemer Mission exists to proclaim the love and message of Jesus Christ, grounded in the truth of God’s Word. Rooted in Scripture and compelled by the love of Christ, our mission seeks to bridge cultural, ideological, and spiritual divides through hospitality, cultural and language exchanges, and business development.
Based in Tokyo, Japan, we labor among the locals, expats, and diaspora communities. Through personal relationships, public teaching, digital media, and theological engagement, Redeemer Mission seeks to clearly share the sufficiency of Jesus Christ in a world increasingly marked by compromise and confusion.
We believe the gospel is not merely a message to admire, but truth to share with anyone and everyone, all the time, in both word and deed. Therefore, Redeemer Mission exists to make Christ known where He is least known about and to help strengthen believers to stand firm in the truth of His Word.
“Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.” — John 17:17 (ESV)
“Contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.” — Jude 1:3 (ESV)
When?
Redeemer Mission’s roots stretch back more than two decades through ongoing cultural exchange, relationship-building, artistic collaboration, business, and gospel-centered engagement across multiple nations and communities.
Rob’s first international cultural exchange initiative began in 2003 through an arts-focused exchange effort in Romania. Emily’s international work began in 2005 through exchange initiatives in Mexico. Over the years that followed, these efforts expanded into various regions including Venezuela and parts of Europe, where relationships were cultivated through service, cultural engagement, the arts, and meaningful personal connection.
In 2013, these efforts advanced with the launch of the Maker’s Art Project and its exchange initiative, the Art Bridge. Through this work, friendships and cultural partnerships were formed between China and North Korea over approximately two years, including the construction of a pottery kiln as part of a cooperative artistic exchange endeavor designed to foster trust, friendship, and human connection through the arts.
In 2022, our family relocated to South Korea, where we continued to engage in cultural exchange initiatives, relationship-building, and community involvement with the Korean people. Then, in 2025, we relocated to Tokyo, Japan, where we continue developing long-term friendships, cultural arts initiatives, business connections, and gospel-centered engagement among both the Korean diaspora and Japanese communities.
Throughout these years, one consistent thread has remained: a conviction that genuine relationships, hospitality, cultural engagement, creativity, and faithful proclamation can serve as meaningful bridges between people from vastly different backgrounds while pointing ultimately to the hope found in Jesus Christ.
Where?
Redeemer Mission is based in Tokyo, the largest metropolitan area in the world and one of the most densely populated urban centers on earth.
Tokyo Fast Facts
Greater Tokyo’s population is estimated at over 37 million people, making it the world’s largest metropolitan area.
Japan remains one of the world’s least Christian regions, with approximately 98%+ of the population never having heard the message of Jesus Christ.
While Tokyo is globally known for technological innovation, safety, efficiency, and economic influence, it is also home to deep, widespread secularism, religious syncretism, and increasing social isolation.
Tokyo’s international makeup continues to grow, bringing together people from across Asia and around the world, including sizable Korean, Chinese, Southeast Asian, and international communities.
The Tokyo region contains thousands of neighborhoods, train stations, universities, businesses, and cultural centers that create countless opportunities for relationship-building and meaningful engagement.
Japan’s demanding work culture and urban pace often leave many people struggling with loneliness, anxiety, and a lack of meaningful community despite being surrounded by millions of others.
It is estimated that only one body of believers exists per 16,000 people
From conversations in cafés and neighborhoods to friendships formed through the arts, hospitality, business, and everyday life, Tokyo represents an incredible opportunity to reach the nations with the love and message of Jesus Christ.
It is here — among one of the world's largest and most influential urban populations — that Redeemer Mission seeks to faithfully share the hope of Jesus Christ through relationships and sincere engagement.
Why?
We believe every person — regardless of nationality, language, background, or worldview — deserves the opportunity to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ clearly, truthfully, and compassionately.
Redeemer Mission exists because we are convinced that the message of Jesus Christ is not merely one spiritual option among many, but the only true hope for reconciliation with God, forgiveness of sin, and eternal life. In a world increasingly marked by confusion, isolation, false gospels, secularism, and spiritual uncertainty, we believe faithful proclamation of biblical truth matters deeply and is nothing short of essential.
Our work is driven by several core convictions:
Jesus Christ is sufficient to save sinners completely.
Scripture is likewise sufficient, true, authoritative, and trustworthy.
The gospel must not only be believed privately, but shared openly.
Genuine relationships and hospitality can serve as meaningful bridges for long-term gospel witness.
Faithful discipleship requires both truth and love.
Cultural engagement should never come at the expense of fidelity to God’s Word and forthrightness.
The nations — including highly developed and modern societies — still desperately need the gospel.
Having lived and served among diverse cultures and communities for many years, we have seen firsthand that material prosperity, technological advancement, education, and social stability cannot ultimately satisfy the deepest needs of the human heart.
Behind crowded cities, busy schedules, and outward success often exists loneliness, emptiness, confusion, and a longing for truth, hope, forgiveness, and purpose.
Redeemer Mission exists because we believe Jesus Christ alone answers those deepest needs.
We are compelled not by political ideology, cultural trends, or institutional ambition, but by the conviction that Christ is worthy to be known, His gospel is worthy to be proclaimed, and His Word is worthy to be trusted.
“How are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard?” — Romans 10:14 (ESV)
“For we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.” — Acts 4:20 (ESV)
How You Can Help
Pray. Give. Go.
We need wisdom that only comes from God every day in this line of work. Please pray that God would bless us with wisdom and discernment in all things that He may be glorified and made known here in Japan
Monthly and one-time giving is so essential to this work as well. Some are called to go. Some are called to send. It takes both! If you’re called to send and help keep this work going, consider giving by clicking the link below.
Come to Japan and see for yourself! Nothing will give you perspective on the immense task at hand here and how truly, …
“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.” -Jesus, Mt. 9:37-38
