A Year to Remember

It has been one year since December 30, 2009 — the Eve of New Year’s Eve. I still remember it like it was yesterday: The morning was off to a rocky start as I had the “blue flu.” I still don’t exactly know what that means, but I had it. I did not want to […]

Last Project Post

Hi everyone! If you’ve been reading my blog these past 7 weeks, thank you so much! I pray that you are seeing some of the injustices that exist for Chicago’s inner-city youth. This will be my LAST Project post for the summer. We are actually leaving the dorms tomorrow morning and moving into the Agape […]

TBD Outreach and Ministry Sites: Week 5

Hi ya’ll 🙂 Time is winding down in Chicago. I will be home in 12 days from today. Although I am looking forward to seeing my family and Miss Lindsey Rapp, it is all a little bittersweet. This week was our 5th week of full-time ministry. Our group volunteered at Armitage Baptist Church/Chicago Hope. Armitage […]

Inception and Ministry Sites: Week 4

Hi everyone! This week my ministry site group volunteered at Restoration Ministries in Harvey, Illinois (home of Alex Martin, a national boxing champion that was shown last night on ESPN. Unfortunately he didn’t win the fight but I’m sure he did his hometown proud). Anyway, Restoration Ministries was really awesome. We got to work with […]

Car Wash Outreach and Ministry Sites: Week 3

Hi all 🙂 This week was remarkable. My ministry group volunteered at Pui Tak in Chinatown. It was a wonderful experience. BTW, Joy Yee has the best Asian Cuisine of all time. Nothing can compare 🙂 It all started last Sunday when we went to a church called CCUC. It was probably my favorite church […]

Taste Outreach and Ministry Sites: Week 2

Let me start off by saying that this week was an awesome, humbling experience. My ministry group volunteered at the Salvation Army this week. It was so cool. We did a lot of physical work throughout the week. Each day two people were able to ride in the Mobile Feeding Unit. The Mobile Feeding Unit […]

Prison Outreach and Ministry Sites: Week 1

This week was awesome! On Monday, our group went to our first ministry site. We were working at Edgewater Baptist Church (the church that we went to last Sunday). The church has a day camp in which the students learn more about Jesus and the Bible. Their theme for the summer is based off of […]

Father’s Day, Friends, & Facebook

First of all, Happy Father’s Day! I’ve officially been in Chicago for 10 days and I’m loving every second of it — well, almost every second. This week has been intense with meetings and traveling and training. We’ve also had some fun, too. We finally got divided into our ministry teams. I’m on team with […]

Arriving in Chicago

I’m finally here! I woke up at 3:30 a.m. this morning in order to make it to the airport for my 6:00 a.m. flight. Things went a lot smoother than I thought they would. The self-check in was super easy and I made it through security quite quickly despite the massive line. I took the […]

Missing May

I’ve been slacking so much on my blog updates. It’s ridiculous! The month of May has been absolute mayhem! In between work, my brother coming home from college, my grandpa visiting from Japan and taking a one week vacation to visit family in Michigan, things have been absolutely CRAZY! So, I’m very happy that May […]