simply me

Have you ever felt quite alone in a pursuit? Like it's you and your little group of people trying to accomplish something which keeps falling? Motivation slowly but surly diminishes and you're suddenly at the end of the rope with no dream left. That's often been the story I've experienced, especially with campus ministry. But the Lord is bringing something fresh to my campus and inasmuch, my heart. A small group of students and community members have been working together with  Carry The Love  to bring their campus tour to our University!  This process has felt at times like the above questions, like we've been alone in our hopes and pursuits. But there has been such beauty uncovered as we have stepped up and reached out to our campus community. Our little team has grown at least double in prayer supporters.  This is awesome, but it pales in comparison to the heart's response to going and having conversations. Literally meeting people where th...

As my missions travels for the year have come to an end, I would like to take some time to reflect on the experience as a whole. About a month ago I returned to my hometown in Pennsylvania where life began to flow more traditionally. Many times people return home from traveling, school, missions, vacations, etc. and say “back to reality!” But I would argue that these experiences were also a reality, and are real parts of our lives. In my case: I had real experiences and encounters with other real people and with our real God. Real relationships were formed with other real people. All this in tangibly real places where all of us can realistically return to; where other people live their real lives in real time, all the time. Just because an experience doesn’t look like my life traditionally does doesn’t mean it’s an invalid reality… (food for thought!) That rant aside: Here are some other thoughts through which I will share some things I have learned, or am learning, as a result of m...