This is what I heard at 9:44pm while driving on Highway 60 from Fontana to Moreno Valley last Thursday night. And so began the tire adventure… At first when I heard the loud pop, I figured it was my water cooler lid blowing off – sometimes the container has problems adjusting to altitude changes. But then my car tail started to wiggle, and I heard […]
Radio Revelations Part I – Genes, Santana, and the 5-Station Hypothesis
I’m in the car a lot. I think we’ve already established that fact longggg ago. I love music, and usually have music playing wherever I am. Thus, I listen to a lot of radio. Radio makes me think about a whole host of things, which I will share with you. Feel free to laugh at me. I won’t mind, I will never find out. 1) On […]
I Tube, do You Tube?
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is a video worth? YouTube seems to be all the rage these days. It’s turned into a verb, like “google” has — “oh, YouTube it and you’ll see this hilarious video…” I was shopping for a video camera last night, and some models have a YouTube sticker on them, boasting ‘one-click uploads’ to the YouTube […]
By the Numbers
Short and simple: 8 months of itineration over 100 meetings with pastors 58 services so far and 15 scheduled for the month of March phone calls… I don’t even want to know 40,000 university students in Chiang Mai who have yet to say yes to Jesus and I have reached 52% of my monthly budget. Please pray with me that I will raise 100% of my […]
31/13 Or, The Tricks of the Trade
These days, I live on the road. I am learning (and remembering) the radio stations I like in San Diego, LA, and Fresno. I have found that Special K cereal makes a good “stay awake” snack, as do apples and bananas, but Post Select Grains is too hard to eat while driving. I love cruise control. Unfortunately, my car does not have its own wireless network, and I […]
Only in California…
Itineration all over America is similar to some extent, in purpose and often in strategy. Still, there are some days on my journey that are uniquely “Southern California.” I had one of those days on Monday. Back in October I wrote about freeways (see this post), and some things never change. On Monday I woke up at 4:30 to be on the road by 5 […]
Happy New Year!
What a full year 2008 was, and 2009 promises to be no less exciting. This year I will move to Thailand! Moving seems like a long way off – I have been itinerating for five months and only have 28% of my monthly budget raised – but I know that God is faithful to accomplish what He has started. Thailand though is not far off, […]
25 Percent !!!
Currently I have 25% of my monthly support raised! People say, “Wow that’s great! You’re doing really well!” And 25% is pretty good, but I still feel so far away. I have been itinerating for about four and a half months — but the process to get to this point has taken a year and a half, so it feels a lot longer than just four […]
Travelin’ Woman
In September and October, I went to… San Diego, Lakewood, Costa Mesa, Oxnard, Simi Valley, Lake Elsinore, San Bernardino, Camarillo, San Luis Obispo, Whittier, Port Hueneme, Downey, Commerce, Hawthorne, North Hollywood, Hemet, San Jacinto, Desert Hot Springs, Indio, La Quinta, Fullerton, Corona, Irvine, Los Angeles, Northridge, Pismo Beach, Arroyo Grande, Santa Maria, La Mirada, Torrance, Westchester, Sunland, Arleta, and of course Ventura. If your city isn’t […]
Which is YOUR favorite freeway?
When I met with the itineration specialists in Springfield back in March, they were concerned about me raising support in Southern California. They said, “Oh the freeways there are so bad! It’s going to take you a long time to get places, all that sitting in the car…” I don’t know if they meant it to be discouraging, or if they are just used to […]