Here's the journal about the YWAM trip to Key West the last week of our outreach Friday, August 05, 2005 Journal for Cycle 6 Key West Trip with Calvary Chapel of Boca Raton Friday  Megan got us  to Glad Tidings church in record time- 9 hours from Orlando to Key West.  We even made it in time to attend their Friday night youth service.   The Calvary Chapel youth performed "Tourniquet" for the Glad Tidings youth.  After lots of praise and worship we played a really cool game called Commando.  With "Mission Impossible" playing in the background, we broke up into teams to smuggle candy in the dark from the front of the sanctuary to the back.  Pastor Kent "PK" stood up front with the flashlight.  Anyone who got caught in the spotlight was out.  It was a cool game!  After the fun and games were over we went to Dairy Queen next door for some ice cream, and that's when I found out the youth group from ...

Rosetta Stone is some software for learning Portuguese! I'm 5 units away from finishing all the writing comprehension. It's definitely helped me correspond via email with people down in Brazil. Speaking of which, I had an absolutely awesome conversation over dinner with Beto Tavares this past Saturday. He leads a YWAM base in Piratininga, Brazil. He and his wife will be helping me get a year long visa to Brazil. Pray that the lawyer helping with the paperwork and the Brazilian embassy will move quickly on this. Beto just happened to be in Wheaton, MD this weekend so I went to go visit him Saturday night. FYI, Brazilians are some of the most hospitable people I have ever met. We had dinner together at Eleda and Ken's. Ken is American, his wife Eleda is Brazilian. They prepared us a meal just beautiful to look at much less eat! This couple was professional hospitality. Beto, Tiago (Beto's friend local to Wheaton) and I yammered on about our philosophies of ministry and t...

Fabio Rosa: The second program turns to the work of 'compassionate capitalists,' who have created self-sustaining businesses to maximize human benefit, not profit. These include Ashoka Fellow Fabio Rosa (left), a modern Brazilian cowboy who battles government monopolies to bring electricity to remote regions in his country. Rosa is a charismatic, charming Gaucho—a guitar-playing cowboy with the energy and vision of a corporate titan who is determined to bring electricity and new farming opportunities to millions of rural Brazilians, allowing them to enjoy sustainable livelihoods while preserving the environment for future generations. He has used a combination of non-profit and business approaches to build one of the leading companies in Brazil spreading the use of solar energy and managed grazing systems. See photos of Rosa's work . . . Read more."

You haven't heard much from me these past couple of weeks because not much has happened. That's good and bad. I had a great time hanging out with friends from Hopkins and Baltimore two weeks ago. I love Baltimore! It has everything right next to each other: poverty, wealth, bright people, stupid people, artists, engineers, and some crazy people I call my friends . Mario sorry I missed you! Then I continued my tour of friends on down to Middlesex, VA. My church had their annual baptism/party on the Rappahannock River. Good times on the rivah hanging out with friends from Northern VA! Then the same weekend headed down to Suffolk to enjoy Labor Day with more family. Got to meet the latest addition to the family, Brandon . Since then I've been hanging out in West Point with my high school buddy Chris Henley . While he's running his family's hardware store I'm learning Portuguese with Rosetta Stone. Aside from that I've had one random trip up NoVA for an orthod...