OK, I’ve found some fun distractions during the past couple of days which are reenergizing me. Two nights ago I got to have some fun with Matt Hunt, the Associate Minister at Keokuk. After the church’s cabinet meeting (chairs of the committees), I went over to Matt’s and helped him with a 3-minute video he […]
ContinueKeokuk Internship: Stifling Creativity
I should have known this from my college atmosphere, but there are some hours of the day where my creativity and work pace just lag behind. My mornings are great. Before I take lunches I’m usually on fire. Nighttime is usually also great. At campus it was because I’d work out in the Rec Center […]
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Picnic Grove Shelter House Description: The shelter was designed by Tom Burns and when we got there we had 14 holes, 14 6″x6″ posts and no written plans. By the end of the first day, we had concrete bases poured into the holes and three of the poles set up with dry concrete poured around […]
ContinueKeokuk Internship: Mission Trip Day 5
Well, we’re done at camp and on the way home. The mission trip was a success. We ended up getting all of the supporting 2″x4″ beams in place between the trusses and about 80% of them nailed in. Up until 20 minutes ago, four other adults and one of the youth and I were planning […]
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To cap off our week, the Keokuk mission team went to Adventureland for a much deserved rest. I know that it’s sometimes lame to wear matching group t-shirts, but these ones were fun: Adventureland isn’t a new experience for me. I should have realized going in how much it would change me though. Some people […]
ContinueKeokuk Internship: Mission Trip Day 4
Progress: it’s a remarkable thing. Today was great because we got a ton done. This morning we had breakfast at 7:30 and got to work right away. Noel Brown (who’d been heading up most of the work with the shelter house) stayed with us until 10:15am and then left to go on a fishing vacation […]
ContinueKeokuk Internship: Mission Trip Day 3
Morning progress is something I wish I could simply replicate and clone for the afternoons. This morning the group I was in working on the picnic shelter finished setting nine of the support pillars for the shelter. Tuesday afternoon we’d only done three and after lunch today we finished the other two fast and then […]
ContinueThe Magic of Pan
t never ceases to amaze me how great some legends are. This spring I was captivated by a movie I watched with friends: Finding Neverland. I’d known some of the story about Peter Pan’s origin in terms of literature, but the movie was great. Part of it may have been who I was watching it […]
ContinueKeokuk Internship: Mission Trip Day 2
Today I was a floater (NO, not the toilet type). This morning when we finished breakfast we looked outside and saw dark, dark skies. We pulled out the laptops and used the camp’s high speed wireless internet (yeah, definitely enjoying it) and saw that we had a pretty big storm cell heading for us. The […]
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I’m just plain exhausted. We met at the church today at 8am and drove for 3 hours to our denominational church camp in Newton, IA.At the camp, our main project is to build a shelter house at the picnic grove area. There are other projects we’re also working on and getting done. For instance, our […]
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