Let me begin this post by congratulating my St Louis friends on winning the World Series. It couldn't happen to a nicer city and you folks deserve it, especially the way the Rams and Blues have tanked in the last four or five years. St Louis is the greatest baseball town in America.
So, the immersion retreat is going well. On Wednesday morning, we traveled from Corpus Christi to Houston. We spent all Wednesday afternoon at Ecclesia, a church in Montrose -- metro Houston area. It was a really cool experience to talk ministry philosophy and purpose with the guys at Ecclesia. Their church reminds me so much of Cornerstone. Doing great kingdom work.
Wednesday I got a real treat. Mike Taylor is a former student from my youth group at Hope Church in St Louis. Mike went to Moody and is now a youth pastor in Sugar Land, a suburb of Houston. His wedding to his wife, Lacey, was one of the many I was privileged to do this summer. Anyway, I got to spend all night hanging out with Mike and Lacey at their crib. Literally all night -- didn't go to sleep at all. I loved it.
Thursday morning we flew from Houston to San Francisco. San Francisco is another city I love and another location of a wedding I performed this past summer. We had a six hour layover in SanFran, so we took off into the city to hang out in Union Square. Was very cool. Tried to hang out with another former student and intern -- actually, the girl from the SanFran wedding -- but she was working.
Here's a trolley from San Francisco, the home of Rice A Roni, the San Francisco treat, which is the product placement I think of when I think of San Francisco.
Thursday night we flew from San Francisco to Lihue (pronounced Luh-hoo-we), Hawaii on the island of Kauai. This place rules. I've been a lot of beautiful places in the world, and this place is right up there at the top. We are on Kauai to learn from Rick Bundschuh, pastor of Kauai Christian Fellowship a church that started as a youth ministry gone nuts. Kauai is where we'll spend the most solid time block in our trip which is nice cause all this traveling is really taxing, even in Hawaii. So today we were at KCF for a while and then spent the afternoon seeing some of the north shore. Here's some pics from the day.
Tomorrow, we're going on a three hour tour. I may or may not see you all again.
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