Day In Downtown

Today was an exciting day has realHope set up a booth at the downtown festival in Fuquay-Varina. We handed out flyers with our information on it while doing face painting, hot chocolate, and had a drawing for a way cool treasure chest full of goodies. It was a really good day to be out in the community serving. And yes yours truly, painted face after face and became quite good at it. Thanks to John and Blynn who stayed the entire day with me setting up and tearing down. Couldn't have done with all you guys! Thanks also to Christie and Jen who help face paint in the morning and for Megan and Christine helping get the hot water from the church to our booth. If you visited our booth we hope you will be our guest this Sunday at 10:30 am! See everyone in the morning!

The Redwoods

Today, on way back up to Santa Rosa I made one last stop to Muir Woods. Incredible to see the giant redwoods. It had rained last night so the creek was full and it was just amazing to see. Really I think this was one of the best things I've seen so far. Well tomorrow I'll be back home...and I can't wait! Thanks Jedd and Brad for the recommendation!

I stood in this one!

Pier 39

So this evening I decided since I've been working so hard (yesterday was a very long day!) that I needed some fresh air and something fun to do. It was moderately fun but would have been so much more fun if my wife and son were along. I went to Pier 39 where I enjoyed some ice-cream, a magic show, sea-lions (boy were the loud!), overlooked Alcatraz Island (I really wanted to go see this but they didn't have an evening tour tonight...ahh well), watched the cable cars, looked at the sail boats, and then enjoy a quiet dinner at the crab house. I sat in front of a fire which is the first time I have felt warm in California! So it was all ok but when you are far away from the ones you love most...well...it sucks. However, please enjoy the pictures!

Picture of the Day

Ok so I drove over the Golden Gate today to go to Santa Rosa where I was recruiting. Did you know that there are 80,000 miles of cable which can stretch 3 x around the earth. The bridge can swing 27' in either direction and can drop 10' under extreme conditions! Way to go John Strauss!

Picture of the Day

So while I'm working hard I try to find time to see one fun things while I'm out here. This is Pacifica Pier, well the Peir is behind and I thought this view was better. Enjoy!

On Southwest

So I’m on my way to San Francisco, California, and it’s a long flight. So I thought this would be a good opportunity to update you all on things that have been going on lately.

I’m going to San Francisco to recruit people for jobs. This was a last minute trip decided on Wednesday because we had somewhat of a crisis on a current project. And so I was asked to make this trip to provide the leadership needed. My boss has call me her ‘star performer’ which I have to admit is always nice for the ego…however big responsibility and sacrifice seems to follow it.

I’d prefer not to travel and be gone for another week from Christie and Luke. They both are very strong and supportive when I’m gone. But today before I left I got to play with Luke and his balloon and well it’s those moments that make it really hard to go do your job.

And this is the first time I’ve flown Southwest and wow I’ve never seen people herd to the gate to get their preferred seat like that before. Lucky me got a window seat with no one beside me!

rH's First Baby Dedication

We had our first baby dedication service at rH. It was really great…it was super! Scott and Jen DeVarne dedicated their child Steven. We had 30 people come and well, yep our building was really crowded. A lot of great connections were made and it was so good for our community to experience the body of Christ together like that.

We have so big outreach events coming up this month and next. We are going to have a booth at Fuquay’s downtown festival where over 10,000 people come. Then in November we are doing another International Quiz night. We are looking for a local bar or pub to sponsor it at. Right now we are searching for a worship leader or least some people who can play instruments to help out our worship. Once we have that in place we are going to look at doing a bigger marketing campaign in the community.