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Be a Celebrator

When you have good news, who do you want to call first?  Obviously your family members, friends, etc are all included in that list.  That’s not what I’m talking about specifically.  I mean, when you want someone to get excited with…

Pass the Plate

So much of life is centered around a meal. We are either preparing for, eating, or doing something just after the meal is over.   Good things happen at tables laden with food. That’s what my life has become recently:…

A Rose By Any Other Word

God gave me a rose. It was awesome. Do you want to hear the story? OK, OK, I’ll tell you! One of our classes this semester is called Spiritual Formations.  As a first semester apprentice, we learned about spiritual concepts…

You Have My Attention

I’ve decided to share something with you, my incredible readers, that I’ve never shared with anyone before. It’s not a dirty dark secret that needs to be aired out or a skeleton that needs to be set free…no, this is…

My Roommate Is Two

Adventures in Missions believes in community.  This semester I live with: A married couple, their 2-year-old, their 4-month-old baby and 5 twenty-somethings.  It’s an adventure on a daily basis from coordinating rides to the office to navigating the life-change that comes…

Sopping Wet on the Other Side

It’s official. All of the apprentices for the 2016 Spring CGA class are in Gainesville. …and all of last week, we were welcomed into this new season… What does that mean exactly?  It means that all of us lived in…

THIS IS SPARTA!

God speaks to people in different ways.   This is something that I realized while on the World Race, and it has only gotten clearer as time has gone on.  He can speak to us in words, pictures, encouragement, worship,…

Beignet, Done That

This week, I am writing from New Orleans, Louisiana in a coffee shop that sells the famous beignets.  While I wish I could claim the punny title as my own, this shop has mugs with that phrase plastered all over…

Did You Just Do This?

…and you thought I was done blogging.  Not a chance! Now that the holidays are through, I wanted to explain what my life looks like in the near future.  Some of this may be information you’ve read before, but sometimes…