and so it begins.

I'm not really one for writing blogs, but as most of you know, I will be spending the majority of 2010 in Europe. From May 17 to June 24 I will be in Rome and after doing time in Oxford and Columbus, I'll be off to Luxembourg in the fall. Both trips are going to be really exciting, and so I think they will be worth blogging about... that, and I hear that some people would like to know what's going on in my life while I'm out of the country. So here's my blog, cleverly titled Across the Pond because I'll be in Europe. Hopefully by the time January rolls around I'll have dredged the motivation to dust off my old knowledge of HTML and make it look nicer than the default template.

Ridiculous though it may seem, in one week from today I will be in Chicago training for my trip to Rome with Campus Crusade for Christ. To recap, I will be working with three universities in Rome, building relationships with students and sharing with them how to have a personal relationship with God. Rome is one of my favorite cities in the world and the relational type of ministry we will be doing is definitely an area in which I can grow.

So here's where I am now: laying around in my pajamas until my hair appointment. Also, I have about $1500 left to raise this week so that I can go to Rome. You can be praying for support to come in and that God would prepare the hearts of my team and myself to be ready for the ministry in Rome and what he is going to teach us this summer.

I promise this will get more exciting.