The Perfect Saturday




































































What better way to spend a Saturday than hanging out in an Orchard in Michigan picking your own apples and raspberries, eating fresh apple pie and seeing Lake Michigan? The day started out pretty good, too. We got to sleep in, run in the beautiful crisp air of Michigan, have amazing Middle Eastern food, the best Baklava I've ever eaten, and see a "G Sale". The picture doesn't even need explaining, it was just that good it explains itself. It was so beautiful at the orchard, it almost looked like a painting, but it wasn't, God is just that good! It was wonderful to get some fresh air and actually pick and eat our own apples. BV had a knife with him and cut us each pieces so we could taste each one before we picked them (or left them if they were too sour). We had our fill of fiber for the day for sure :-). The orchard was about 5 miles from the Lake, and even though we didn't get to walk the shoreline, the view was incredible. It doesn't even look like a lake, but more like an ocean. It was great. We also got to hang out with some new friends from the road, a really fun couple (campus ministers) and eat a home cooked meal and watch some fun re-runs of The Office. Does it get any better than that? It really was the perfect Saturday!

Fun on the Road

Downtown Chicago from the Highway



































































Two weeks into our time on the road, we've had tons of fun in the van, seen some great friends & IT alum in The Windy City, Steven & Lauren, eaten some amazing Greek food, stayed at The Hilton (thanks Steven & Lauren!!), laid eyes (& fingers) on a Rolls Royce without setting off an alarm, spent countless hours in coffee shops, attended a bonfire and spoken to over 500 students and had about 50 one to one meetings with students giving them more resources and information on what God is doing in the world and challenging them to see how they fit into that. So far...really great!

Meeting #1!





























Our very first meeting of the semester was a Chapel at a Baptist College in Arkansas with over 400 students. It was a great meeting and we had some good one to one meetings with a few of the students afterwards. On our way to the meeting from Tulsa, we got to hang out with Todd & Jess Ahrend and baby Cam where the guys played golf and the girls just stared at Cam and got to talk to Jess all day. On the way back from the meeting, we stopped in Conway and had lunch with our amazing office staff, then headed on to Tulsa to speak at Asbury before we officialy made it to Zone 7. What a great start to the semester!

And We're Off...

The Team & our scheduler Brian, Amber, Erin, Abbey & Bryan










































We are finally traveling after committing to TTT over 2 years ago, and are so excited! We have a great team, Bryan & I, Brian Villarias from Seattle, WA and Amber Osborne from Alma, AR. The four of us will be traveling from the beginning of September until Thanksgiving through Illinois, Indiana and Michigan. We have an amazing schedule thanks to Erin who works in our office. Here's our schedule for the semester. Wed love for you to track with us and pray for us as we go!

Team 3 Zone 7
September
5 Williams Baptist
6 Asbury United Methodist Church
7-8 Evansville, IN
11 Ferris State IVCF
13 Grand Valley State IVCF
18 Central Michigan IVCF
20 Western Michigan His House
27 Eastern Michigan His House
28 Univ. of Michigan CCC

October
2 Saginaw Valley His House
3 Northwood Univ. XA
4 Central Michigan His House
5 Michigan State IVCF Grad
8 Bethel College
10 Indiana State CO
11 IUPUI Fort Wayne IVCF
16 IU Bloomington CCC
17 Univ of Southern Indiana CO
18 Vincennes CCF
19 IU Bloomington Navs
24 Univ of Indianapolis CCC
25 Ball State CCC
26 Purdue IVCF
29 Illinois College BASIC
30 Eureka CCC
31 Monmouth CCC

November
1 Northern Illinois CCC
3 Illinois State CCC
4 Eastview Christian Church FUEL
6 Lincoln College CCC
7 Bradley Univ CCC
8 Univ of Illinois Champaign IVCF
9 Univ of Illinois Urbana IVCF
11 Univ of Illinois CCC Leadership
12 Univ of Illinois CCC
15 Elmhurst CCC
16 Columbia College CCC

**Campus Minitries
CCC- Campus Crusade for Christ
IVCF - Intervarsity Christian Fellowship
XA - Chi Alpha
BASIC - Brothers and Sisters in Christ

Learning to Blog...

I have finally caught on to the blogging phenomenon that has swept through my generation, but somehow left me untouched. I'll use the term 'caught on' loosely though. After promising to start one 5 months ago to keep friends and family updated on our lives, and two months of trying to figure out how to make this thing work, I think I may have 1 succesful post... we'll see. Most of our life and ministry happens on the road while we're gone from home and we want to be able to share that with you. Hopefully, this is a place where that can happen! Bear with me as I learn to use the internet, haha, and blog. Hope you enjoy stories and pictures from our life on the road, what an adventure! Happy Reading!