lifeasmission

I was able to get away this past week to connect with some friends and family, first in the Outer banks of NC and then in Chicago.

Babs (Adam) and Carrie were celebrating their 4 year anniversary and invited some friends along.  So, I joined them and my friends Sean and Julie - and their 6-month [...]

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I could never do justice in a blog post to all that I have seen, felt, and been a part of for the last 10 days or so as I traveled with a small team of others to Kabul, Afghanistan. So, rather than giving you my journal of the trip, let me try to [...]

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I am departing in just a few hours with a team of 4 others, bound for Kabul, Afghanistan.  Three of us will be helping to facilitate a number of courses around the idea of  servant leadership for a class of government and business leaders.  Zack, a doctor, will be speaking at a medical conference and [...]

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I spent the 4th of July with friends and family back in Ohio and on Pelee Island on the Canadian side of Lake Erie.
I left Memphis Wednesday night, was supposed to switch planes in Detroit and then get into Akron/Canton.  Unlike my brother, for whom traveling is almost always filled with surprises of the negative [...]

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OK, here’s a partial update - the full one would be overwhelming.
After a long, hard battle of weighing various options and opportunities, I made the decision to return to Ohio to be near family and a long-time community of friends.  This meant having to resign from my position with the MAGL which was not something [...]

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Attention: Long Post Ahead - For your own safety please consult bold headings and pictures
Home to Ohio - Thursday, May 24
I am in Cleveland airport returning from a week home in Ohio. I was home to spend time with family, to be with my community of friends who were taking advantage of the long [...]

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I finally got around to uploading the pictures from my time in Oslo. You can check them out here. Some are courtest of Maria’s and my friend, Julianne. There are also some new pictures in the Molde set if you wanna check those out.

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I just returned from a weekend excursion with Maria and our friend Julianne to Molde (mole-duh), which is on the western coast of Norway and is where her parents (Øystein & Oddbjørg) live. We flew out on Thursday evening, on Friday I woke early to go for a long run along the coastline. In the [...]

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