Summer Sky

The sky is endless,

Utterly blue white and warm.

Oh to get lost underneath it,

To travel forever and always feel at home. 

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And We're Off!

Bon Voyage, Everyone! 

As of 10:00 this morning, the nine other members of the missions team and I are airborne and headed to Trinidad!

While it won't be a straight shot (we have two layovers, one of which is very long), we will get there eventually. Once we land in Trinidad, we hope to get right to work, working hand in hand with our Trinidad counterparts, experiencing a new culture, and using the skills we developed when planning for this trip. The team is well oiled and ready to go and, while I haven't asked each of them, I'm pretty sure everyone on the team is just as excited about this trip as I am.

We're all hoping to get something out of this trip. Something more than a cheap souvenir, something that lasts longer than a week, a sense that we did good work. While I don't know how this trip is going to go, I do know that God is going to do some amazing work over the week. From the very beginning, I could feel God working on the team, I could hear him working in everyone's hearts, and I just know that, no matter how scared, nervous or shell-shocked the team gets, we're ready to do God's work.

Please consider praying for the Trinidad team as we embark on this great adventure. Pray that everyone can work together well, that we stay open to what God has planned, that God would speak through our words and actions, and that we leave a lasting impact on the people we meet. Yet let them not remember us, but rather what God did through us. Pray for open hearts and minds, willingness to repent and believe, and for God to work through one small group of fallible humans.


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Adventure

The wind slowly rises swept at my feet,
I've got places to go and new people to meet.
I'm off on an adventure no telling where to,
Suitcase in hand off to the wild blue.

Adventure awaits me on every shore,
New things to see behind every door.
Mystery wonder all of them mixed,
See them I must by beauty transfixed.

Oh what a world to hold such a wonder,
Travel through it I will in rain and thunder.
Singing my song rising through pain,
Watching the sun on the hilltops wane.

Look down the road you can see me walk by,
Adventure is waiting my eyes to the sky.
One step at a time dust at my feet,
Horizon-bound the air sunny and sweet.

I've dreamed for so long about seeing the world,
Now a path stretches before me forever unfurled.
Onwards to adventure wonder and fun,
On up the road towards the rising sun.

Boots on my feet suitcase in hand,
Off to see a world far and quite grand.
Sea to sea sky to sky,
I'm off on adventure with wings to fly.


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