As you know, Beth and I traveled to Kansas and Oklahoma this past weekend. It was a really good trip, although it was very busy and tiring. Here's what we did (adapted from our weekly email last week):
Thursday:
- Flew to Wichita, picked up rental car, drove to Pratt (trivia: Pratt has been home of the Miss Kansas pageant since the beginning of time and my mom was the "voice of the Miss Kansas pageant" for many years, broadcasting the event live on the radio.)
- 7 PM - gathering of old friends at Pratt United Methodist
Friday:
- Breakfast with friends who couldn't be there Thursday PM
- "Pop-in" visits on friends throughout the day
- Drove over to Greensburg to see the devastation from the tornado
- Visited my parents graves
Saturday:
- Traveled to Tonkawa, OK to my sister Dianne's home
- Set up for Sunday AM
- Had a nice time with our niece, Stacey and her two kids
Sunday:
- Shared at early service (more of a Bible study type gathering)
- Main service - we led worship and I preached
- Did a workshop that afternoon with Dianne's worship team at her church
- In the evening - dessert party at Dianne and Ken's with a few of their friends to share about our ministry in greater detail
Monday:
- Drove to Tulsa to meet with friends there and shot some video footage to be used in our own videos (our friend does that sort of thing professionally)
- Drove back to Tonkawa in the evening
Tuesday:
- Drove to Wichita to fly home, stopping through Winfield, where I went to college a couple of years. (trivia: the character Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island was from Winfield)
So that's why we're so tired!
Jul 27, 2007
Jul 24, 2007
Heading home (the current one)
In the Wichita airport, getting ready to return to Gulf Breeze. We've had a good weekend and I'll give the highlights in the next day or so.
I've been saving up quarters and I only need about 792 more to get that iPod out of the machine in ATL.
Hmmm
I've been saving up quarters and I only need about 792 more to get that iPod out of the machine in ATL.
Hmmm
Jul 20, 2007
Home
Yeah, when I travel home to Kansas, it just feels so comfortable. As we drive through the countryside (this may sound really weird) I hear music. Maybe it would be more accurate to say I feel music. It's a deep expression coming from within me that's hard to explain.
BTW - I thought I might buy a new iPod or set of headphones from that vending machine in ATL, but I didn't have enough quarters. Oh, well...
BTW - I thought I might buy a new iPod or set of headphones from that vending machine in ATL, but I didn't have enough quarters. Oh, well...
Jul 19, 2007
Traveling again...
So we're sitting in ATL waiting for our flight to beautiful Wichita, KS. Tonight we are going to be in Pratt, where I grew up.
We're going to be meeting with old friends to tell them about the work we're doing in Ireland and trying to raise some financial support. We'll hang around Pratt until Saturday morning and then make our way to Tonkawa, OK.
Sunday morning we'll be leading worship at my sister and brother-in-law's church and I'll be preaching.
After visiting friends in Tulsa on Monday, we'll make our way back to Wichita and home on Tuesday.
Whew!
We just saw the craziest thing. A vending machine in ATL that sells iPods and all sorts of accessories. It's a new day. Nothing stays the same.
We're going to be meeting with old friends to tell them about the work we're doing in Ireland and trying to raise some financial support. We'll hang around Pratt until Saturday morning and then make our way to Tonkawa, OK.
Sunday morning we'll be leading worship at my sister and brother-in-law's church and I'll be preaching.
After visiting friends in Tulsa on Monday, we'll make our way back to Wichita and home on Tuesday.
Whew!
We just saw the craziest thing. A vending machine in ATL that sells iPods and all sorts of accessories. It's a new day. Nothing stays the same.
Jul 7, 2007
If you're into art...
Came across a really cool website. It's a place where missionaries who are artists can sell their artwork to help benefit their work.
I get somewhat frustrated with the whole "Christian art" scene, in that much of what's out there is - pardon me - crap. Unfortunately, there is a whole slew of Christians who think they are artists, but really don't have that gifting. I respect the fact that they are doing it for the Lord and trying to use their art as an evangelistic tool, but sometimes I wonder what non-Christians who view their work think of their substandard attempts at art.
What I've found at MissionArt.com is anything but lame. Truly gifted artists using their talent for God's Kingdom. Check it out.
I get somewhat frustrated with the whole "Christian art" scene, in that much of what's out there is - pardon me - crap. Unfortunately, there is a whole slew of Christians who think they are artists, but really don't have that gifting. I respect the fact that they are doing it for the Lord and trying to use their art as an evangelistic tool, but sometimes I wonder what non-Christians who view their work think of their substandard attempts at art.
What I've found at MissionArt.com is anything but lame. Truly gifted artists using their talent for God's Kingdom. Check it out.
Jul 1, 2007
Update overdue
Okay, so before I delve into my reviews, it dawned upon me that it has been a while since my last ministry update here on the blog. I've emailed a newsletter recently and I send out our weekly prayer update, so I tend to forget that this venue is also for keeping you up-to-date on our journey.
A few weeks ago it seemed the right time to begin planning our next trip to Ireland, so I sent out an email to a number of our friends throughout the country to let them know of our impending visit. We hadn't yet set our travel dates and thought we would start by seeing who wanted us to what and when (within a certain scope of time which we defined roughly as the last half of September and the first half of October).
Now, when it comes to getting plans laid for events in Ireland it is often a struggle for us Americans who have this insatiable need to "get it on the calendar - the sooner, the better". We have found that we usually complete our schedule after we've actually arrived, although we always have most of our events planned before then.
Imagine our surprise in that we already have four workshops on the calendar and at least three others planned, but not pinned down yet. Crazy -- I know, right?
It looks to be another trip like our January trip -- lots and lots of traveling. We actually really enjoy that, so long as our rental car has good seats. If I don't have good support for my lower back, my hip really gives me grief. It's the pits getting older - at least physically, I mean. We've had good luck (is there really such thing?) so far in getting good deals on vehicles that suit our needs cargo-wise and comfort-wise.
We still don't have our exact travel dates nailed down, but we'll be doing that soon.
We had several people ask us this morning at church how the recent terrorist events in Glasgow might affect us. I can't imagine that it will cause us any real problems, as long as we go into the trip with the attitude that any extra security precautions, while maybe a pain at the time, are really only meant for our protection.
We're going to be traveling to Oklahoma and Kansas in a couple of weeks to visit my sister and her family and do some MPD (Ministry Partner Development, a.k.a. "fundraising"). We've been invited to lead worship at my sister's church (United Methodist) in Tonkawa, OK and I'll be preaching that morning as well. Really looking forward to that. We're also trying to get something set up at 1st United Methodist Church in Pratt, KS, which is the church I grew up in. We'll be visiting old friends while we're in the area the rest of our time there.
So that's a, well, not-so-quick Ministry Update for you. Let us know if you aren't on our email list(s) and we can add you. There's our regular list to which we send periodic updates and newsletters and then there is our weekly prayer list that goes out, um, weekly, sort of.
TTFALTNCOH!
A few weeks ago it seemed the right time to begin planning our next trip to Ireland, so I sent out an email to a number of our friends throughout the country to let them know of our impending visit. We hadn't yet set our travel dates and thought we would start by seeing who wanted us to what and when (within a certain scope of time which we defined roughly as the last half of September and the first half of October).
Now, when it comes to getting plans laid for events in Ireland it is often a struggle for us Americans who have this insatiable need to "get it on the calendar - the sooner, the better". We have found that we usually complete our schedule after we've actually arrived, although we always have most of our events planned before then.
Imagine our surprise in that we already have four workshops on the calendar and at least three others planned, but not pinned down yet. Crazy -- I know, right?
It looks to be another trip like our January trip -- lots and lots of traveling. We actually really enjoy that, so long as our rental car has good seats. If I don't have good support for my lower back, my hip really gives me grief. It's the pits getting older - at least physically, I mean. We've had good luck (is there really such thing?) so far in getting good deals on vehicles that suit our needs cargo-wise and comfort-wise.
We still don't have our exact travel dates nailed down, but we'll be doing that soon.
We had several people ask us this morning at church how the recent terrorist events in Glasgow might affect us. I can't imagine that it will cause us any real problems, as long as we go into the trip with the attitude that any extra security precautions, while maybe a pain at the time, are really only meant for our protection.
We're going to be traveling to Oklahoma and Kansas in a couple of weeks to visit my sister and her family and do some MPD (Ministry Partner Development, a.k.a. "fundraising"). We've been invited to lead worship at my sister's church (United Methodist) in Tonkawa, OK and I'll be preaching that morning as well. Really looking forward to that. We're also trying to get something set up at 1st United Methodist Church in Pratt, KS, which is the church I grew up in. We'll be visiting old friends while we're in the area the rest of our time there.
So that's a, well, not-so-quick Ministry Update for you. Let us know if you aren't on our email list(s) and we can add you. There's our regular list to which we send periodic updates and newsletters and then there is our weekly prayer list that goes out, um, weekly, sort of.
TTFALTNCOH!
Sorry...
Okay, so it's been like, oh I don't know, forever since I posted.
Sorry 'bout that.
Here's the deal. I have several grand ideas that I have started to write about and they each have become so involved and complicated that I have been unable to finish any of them.
So I have an idea.
For the next couple of posts I'm going to do reviews. Never done a review before so this should be fun. What am I going to review? Well for one, I just listened to Sinead O'Connor's newest release, Theology. I've also just downloaded Tim Hughes' latest. Plus I've seen a couple of movies lately that I may cover.
Stay tuned...
Sorry 'bout that.
Here's the deal. I have several grand ideas that I have started to write about and they each have become so involved and complicated that I have been unable to finish any of them.
So I have an idea.
For the next couple of posts I'm going to do reviews. Never done a review before so this should be fun. What am I going to review? Well for one, I just listened to Sinead O'Connor's newest release, Theology. I've also just downloaded Tim Hughes' latest. Plus I've seen a couple of movies lately that I may cover.
Stay tuned...
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