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  • Why God? Reporting on my OSU Beavers trip last night.... Matt... that's actually not Matt... uhm... That's Sarah who will soon join the OSU Chi Alpha staff. Anyway, Matt and I returned from a great evening wit…

  • Eager to see BeaversLater today I'll be leaving to speak at Oregon State University Chi Alpha. God has been doing some amazing and wonderful things there under the leadership of Russ and Beth (aka osuBeth), and Jamie, Al…

  • Just comparing one of my uncle's paintings to WalkAlongSide's Arizona photo today. This is called "Day and Night" which is part of a series he painted based on Creation.

  • And... still more house stuff-- This afternoon I gathered together all the items developed last week for our "design review" to install basement windows. The good news was City of Portland accepted my packet, though th…

  • Back to work. Quite a bit happened around here today. The guys were in putting up insulation in the basement. It looks like a whole new world down there. Its amazing how insulation immediately sucks up all the soun…

  • Not much to say to day except I'm home with a bit of down time. Got some Papua New Guinea Paradise Gold medium roast coffee steeping in the French Press, I've had a nap and not expecting to do much of anything for the r…

  • Kathy and I are in Bremerton right now with her sister and brother-inlaw. The sky is crystal clear with morning sunshine glimmering off the salt water of Puget Sound below their house near Illahee. We'll be out to brea…

  • More on the Windows I spent most of today and last night putting together a packet to bring to the Portland Planning department for our "window replacement". I wish I was Napoleon Dynamite with one of his classic re…

  • The Answer to "Who Said It?" I thought I'd throw this one in for those of you that just have to have a "spirituality fix" from me. Yes, I do occasionally get into spiritual things. However mostly on the blog I just wa…

  • Who said it? This morning an international friend of mine shared a kind of online Bible study/quiz with me and a few other folks. I thought I'd pass it along to see what you thought about it all. I think he will proba…

  • The window-study guy-- The guy from the Neighborhood Association stopped by and things look like we should not have any problem on installing new windows. Best of all, he also thought we would not have to do the "archit…

  • Say a Prayer for the WINDOW STUDY [grimace]Today at 5:15PM the guy from our Ladd's Addition neighborhood association is stopping by. He seems to be the one that knows about the infamous "historic administrative revie…

  • Thanks everyone for all your warm wishes during our weekend. We had a great time. Even though the group was a bit smaller than normal the quality of our students attending made it so worthwhile. Our good friend ChiAlph…

  • We're on our way to Camp Davidson for our winter retreat (Oregon Breakaway). The weather is beautiful and it should be a lot of fun. Have a great weekend everyone!

  • Back home now-- the Columbia Gorge was incredibly beautiful today. Wish I had remembered to bring the camera with me!

  • LaGrande Arrived at LaGrande, Oregon tonight and staying at the local Super 8 (cheapest rooms) for a couple of nights. Tomorrow my meeting is at Baker City, a spot where the Oregon Trail (the actual ruts) cross through…

  • Today is Saturday. This morning Kathy and I went to our FOCUS Associates training. That was actually really good. If you don't know, FOCUS is the international student ministry we work with at Portland State Universit…

  • Medford It's Thursday night. I'm still in Medford. Today's meeting went well and was a good one for me to attend. Between 1982 and 1987 I was a youth pastor at First Assembly of God here. At the meeting was Al…

  • Klamath Falls I arrived safely last night at Klamath Falls, checked in to the Red Lion (where I got a great price online) and settled in. A bit later I made a survey of the city in search of my favori…