I got back last night from our Missionary Retreat. It’s a three day retreat (I only went two) with any of our Calvary Church missionaries who are in town for our annual Missions Conference. We have 91 missionary families and a $1.2 million missions budget that primarily goes toward supporting our missionaries. The highlight for me [...]

Last night we went to a wedding which was a fascinating experience. First of all, I didn’t know a single person except my wife - the wedding was with an old elementary school friend of Bea’s. Second, it was at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles which is a huge, European style cathedral.Then the weirdest [...]

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 [...]

I am supposed to be taking about 30 high school students and staff to Kenya this summer to work with people suffering with AIDS or affected by others suffering with AIDS. Our team and their parents are having our first formal meeting this Sunday, but then the US Government just issued this Travel Advisory. It’s [...]

I saw this for the first time on Marko’s blog and it is a very cool thing that can help students and yourself and myself be more aware of what is going on in Africa, but specifically Sudan. I plan to use this with my Kenya team - fo sho! So check it out here - [...]

My pastor said on Sunday that the Greek word for “understand” means “to know experientially and intimately.” Wow, that’s really cool. He was preaching on John 3 and the whole story of Nicodemus and Jesus talking about being born again. I guess the word was in there somewhere, but that was the only thing I [...]

I’m super excited because I am going to be leading a trip of High School and College students to Kenya, Africa next August. We are working with Christ’s Hope International doing Choose to Wait abstinence training/sharing gospel and ministering to people with AIDS and orphans of people who have died of AIDS. It should be [...]