PLEASE READ THIS EMAIL BELOW. IT IS VERY TRAGIC. PRAY FOR KENYA. THESE ARE THE TOWNS I WAS IN JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO. IT’S UNBELIEVABLE. PLEASE SUPPORT CHRIST’S HOPE IF YOU CAN. Dear friends, Firstly let me say at the onset that my family and I are safe so far. Its a trying time in the [...]

Dear Darfuri Refugee, I need to tell you about something horrible happening here in the United States. You may not believe it but it is actually true. You see, here in America we have these giant stores that sell things like furniture, clothing, hammers and waffle irons. These stores get very busy during the [...]

We have a blog for my trip to Kenya. There is actually a team already in Kenya that is part of our Calvary Church High School Ministry. I planned the trip that this team is on as well so I am very excited for them to be there. My team leaves this Sunday, August 12th [...]

Here is the Kenya Team minus about four people. We were in the youth room of Mount of Olives Lutheran Church which had all this cool graffiti art. That’s why we are flashing the gang signs.

I just got back from an all-day training on how to teach Choose to Wait classes in Kenya this summer. That’s just a part of what we will be doing, but it should be an ideal way to help and to share Christ with people. The African people are showered with lies about sex and [...]

I don’t understand why, but every time I go on vacation I don’t feel like blogging when I get home. We have been pretty tired from the travel and I was at church from 7:30am-3:00pm today. I will do some BRIEFS:1.We had a good Kenya meeting today. I’m getting more excited about the trip. 2. [...]

1. My first day at OC AIDS Services Foundation was good. I talked for a while with the head of volunteers and helped dispell some of his presuppositions about pastors. I helped make an email list for the AIDS Walk on May 12.2. Matt Doan, High School Pastor at Calvary Church, started a blog. It’s [...]

I wasn’t going to post about this for a while but Mike has forced my hand with this post about the OC AIDS Walk. Our church has been on a series that is casting vision to our people for being more involved in our community. These need to be consistent ministry relationships that are close [...]

So I left on Friday afternoon for our church’s Men’s Retreat. It was a Wild at Heart theme with a couple people from John Eldredge’s team coming to do the speaking - one of which is Bart Hansen who is a member/former elder of our church. It was pretty cool actually. I usually think the [...]

So today we had our first Africa Team Meeting and it went really well. It was a bit of an information dump, but there was a lot to communicate. I told them about the Travel Warnings and they weren’t freaked out or anything. Then we had dinner at Matt and Marie Doan’s house and Tim [...]