You share what already exists — the emails in an inbox and the photos in an album. We organize all of it into a book, week by week. Here is the whole process, start to finish.
Two things exist at the end of every mission: the weekly emails, sitting in a family inbox, and the photos, sitting in a shared album. You send us both in about ten minutes.
For the letters, our illustrated walkthrough shows you click by click how to export them from Gmail — you never forward hundreds of emails by hand, and we never ask for anyone's password. For the photos, you paste the link to the mission's shared Google Photos album. That's the entire job.
Not a Gmail family? Tell us your provider and we'll send a guide written for it. Stuck anywhere? Reply to any email from us and a real person helps.
This is the part you've been dreading, and it's the part we built Fieldbound to do. Every weekly email becomes a chapter, in order, with every word kept. Then every photo in the album — not just the handful attached to emails — is matched to the week it was taken and placed beside that week's letter, at full resolution.
No other missionary book service does this. The others collect what's attached to the emails and leave the album, and the sorting, to you.
While we're at it, we read the letters to map the mission itself: every area served, every transfer, every companion. That becomes the mission map and companion roster that open the book — a spread no other service makes.
Your organized book opens in our editor — chapters assembled, each week's photos waiting in a tray beside its letter. From there, two paths.
Crafted by You ($179): you place the photos, pick templates and fonts, and design the cover. The editor was built for families, not designers — changes save as you go, undo always works, and the preview shows exactly what will print.
Designed for You ($199): our team curates a first draft of the entire book — best photos chosen, layouts picked, every page filled — and you open a finished draft. Change anything you like in the same editor, or nothing at all. Most families have a finished book days sooner this way.
Either way, you approve the book before anything prints. Then a premium color hardcover ships to your door, and a searchable PDF plus a shareable online flip-book come with it.
Every other missionary book service works from photos attached to the emails. Fieldbound ingests the entire shared photo album — hundreds or thousands of pictures — and matches each one to its week automatically.
We built our own book editor instead of handing you a form or a third-party tool. Design every page yourself, or let our team curate a finished draft for you to tweak — which means a finished book in days, not weeks.
Every area, every transfer, every companion, drawn from the letters themselves and opened as a custom two-page spread. Nothing like it exists anywhere else.
$179 or $199 to 250 pages, then just 50¢ a page. No add-on charges for the photo album, no premium-print surcharge, no surprises at checkout.
Ten minutes of your time. The rest is ours.
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