It's nearing the end of October, but I'm going to go back in time a little and fill you in on all that you've missed between the last post and now, almost a month ago! I'm still learning to blog and keep up with life- I'll eventually get better about posting more regularly! Once October hit, meetings doubled, our numbers did more than that, we ran out of agency packets to give to students, sold out of books (almost twice now) and have had a whirlwind of a month! It's been such a great semester so far! I'll do a different post for each week and finally catch you all up to speed with where we are now, Bloomington, Indiana! Enjoy your journey back over our last month!
After the Apple Orchard, we headed on to our next campus, but not before getting to visit Rob Bell's church in Grand Rapids, Michigan (It was great!) and seeing an old friend and IT Alum, Jessica, who was in my small group at IT '05 in LA. We also got to visit and stay at the New Tribes Bible Institute for a few days. One of the girls from my small group this summer in Philly, Tara, is a student there now after enrolling this past fall and loves it! It was so fun seeing her, and we had such a great and refreshing time! The staff hooked us up with amazing housing, our own apartment, food for three days, New Tribes T-shirts and coffee mugs, and a tour of the campus and a whole morning sitting in on classes. Bryan also got to speak in their chapel for a few minutes! The speaker didn't show up on time for the chapel that morning, and the President asked Bryan if he could throw something together last minute. That just happens to be his speciality, and we always give the same presentation, anyway, so we were ready. The speaker ended up showing up, but Bryan still got to share for a few minutes, and the students were actually really challenged and impacted by all that he managed to squeeze into his 5 minutes. It was great fun, and we learned first hand what a great Bible Institute it was! If you are interested, check it out here: http://www.ntm.org/ntbi/bi_overview.php?page=ntbi
From there we headed on to Detroit to meet up with a great friend, and new Traveling Team staff member, Shannon. She had an amazing weekend planned for us, complete with tickets to a Detroit Tigers game, lots of football, darts and great ethnic food, a 150 year old Cider mill with great cold CIder and cider donuts, and a meeting with her friends and supporters from church to give them a better picture of life on staff with TTT. The Tigers game was very exciting- we sat 10 rows up from the field behind 3rd base and were blessed with multiple foul balls. The guys thought it was really cool, Amber and I realized we were safe nowhere and feared for our lives. The guys left to get some food during an inning, and they missed all the action of a home run, lots of high 5's with our new friends sitting around us, and one man being taken out on a stretcher after he was hit in the head with one of those foul balls. They missed all the action, but we felt much safer on their return. The Tigers ended up winning the game and there was a great fireworks show afterwards, too. What a fun weekend in Detroit, thanks Shannon!
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