“We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.” – C.S. Lewis, […]

“The Road goes ever on and on, Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say” – Bilbo Baggins in […]

I swear I just got here. This last Tuesday, I donned suspenders and a polka-dotted bowtie for my graduation from Missionary Training School. I’ve learned lessons beyond count and seen God work in even more ways than that. Our merry little band of students (six of us in all) spent five months studying, reading, discussing, […]

Life is messy. For all my pursuit of loving God far above anything else, I still struggle. I wish I didn’t. I wish the fact that I desire to desire God alone meant that it was true. But I still wrestle against my desires (and Satan’s attacks) on a daily basis. I wish I would […]

Man, time flies. It’s hard to believe it’s been over two weeks since I last posted on here. Sorry! Life has a tendency to slip by when we blink. Aside from all my schoolwork, reading, and ministry, I’ve done a lot of praying as of late. God isn’t letting me stay in one place. As […]

It’d be really great if I never screwed up in a particular area after I learned a lesson. But alas, I’m a member of the human race. We’re really good at learning things and then forgetting them . . . and then relearning them and then forgetting them again. Maybe it’s because I’m praying so […]

It’s hard to believe a week has gone by already. I swear we’re skipping days. It simultaneously feels like I’ve lived here for years and just arrived a week ago. Each week has been packed with a year of knowledge and a month of experiences. I’ve had conversations with people from maybe nine different countries, […]

So I think I owe y’all an apology. Maybe a few. It’s my goal to post on here at least once a week giving an update on what I’m doing or things I’ve been thinking about while I’m down in Georgia for these next five months, but these first couple weeks have been crazy. God’s […]

Five days left. This is it. In just a few days, my family will be driving me down to Clarkston, then saying goodbye a couple of days later. Usually, in situations like this, I avoid thinking about the major thing I’ve gotten myself into until I’m actually there. When I wake up in Haiti or […]

Fundraising is almost always a stressful part of preparing for missions, whether it be a week of service, several months of training, or a lifetime of evangelism. When we’re starting out, we don’t have the guarantee that anyone at all will be interested, and it’s hard to plan exactly when you’ll get all the funding […]