Military Avenue 2009: The Heart of the Matter

Tuesday: You’re not really out of gas. You think you might actually be finding a rhythm. You think you are getting your stride. You think that today will go more smoothly than yesterday because you have a better idea of what your doing, are up against, and are getting a hang of the flow. Hold [...]

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Waking Up

A week ago today Mike pitched his last professional baseball game. It was sad to see that era of his life come to an end but that is the one indisputable fact of a professional athlete’s career: The game you love will cast you aside and in the process break your heart, because it always comes to [...]

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Military Avenue 2009 Breaking in the Rookies

Military Avenue Church holds vacation bible school for three consecutive weeks in July each year. We come for one of those weeks. Hundreds of neighborhood kids show up. VBS starts at 11:30 but kids will be dropped off or just show up anytime after 9:00 because there are adults around, there it’s something to do, [...]

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Military Avenue 2009-Lining up the Dominoes

Day One goes sort of like this: everyone meets at the church (Knox) checks in, gets instructions, loads up (bus-wise), heads to Detroit, unloads (bus-wise), hears Pastor Randy preach (and gets their socks knocked off), has an amazing lunch by one of the locals, gets briefed by Barb and Randy about their VBS duties/life/obligations/expectations, gets [...]

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Military Avenue 2009-Big Plans

(This was written the day before leaving for the Detroit trip so the time line is a little off but so am I)
I can hardly believe that it was exactly two months ago, June 3, Tom Robinson and I, along with the intern group went to Military Ave. to meet with Pastor Brown to get [...]

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Military Avenue Church 2009

I was in Detroit for the annual Knox Turning Point (high school youth group) mission trip to Military Avenue Church during the week of July 19-23. Since returning I have been recovering, working, and creating a website for the trip which includes all the writing and slide show production. I’ve decided to post the blog [...]

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