Good morning, dear reader. If you want to make your reading of today’s entry one with sensory participation resembling what many of us experienced, take the following steps: Turn off your air conditioner. Turn on some bright lamps and point ‘em right at you. Start a fire in the fireplace. Sit next to it. Rub [...]
Posts Tagged ‘iowa’
Mission: Iowa 2011 – Day 3
Posted in Mission: Iowa 2011, tagged bell, city hall, iowa, max liquidator, mission, pocahontas, poky, sheep, verina on July 17, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Mission: Iowa 2011 – Day 2
Posted in Mission: Iowa 2011, tagged agronomy, chicken, cow, hard labor, horse, iowa, lamb burgers, merry-go-round, mission, pocahontas, poky, verina on July 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Greetings, dear reader! We had our first full work day and night on the town so settle in for some stories and photos. Have you subscribed to the blog yet, via email or RSS feed? Now’s the time to do so. Plus, please keep those comments coming and I’ll gladly read your “letters from home” [...]
Mission: Iowa 2011 – Day 1
Posted in Mission: Iowa 2011, tagged agronomy, iowa, mission, pocahontas, poky, rethink church, tornado, ware on July 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Greetings, dear reader, to our annual Excelsior United Methodist Church mission trip blog. You can read about our experiences in Beaumont, Texas (2008-2009) and Cedar Rapids (both in 2009 and 2010) and remember you can subscribe via RSS or email by clicking the links on the right-hand sidebar. I hope to Twitter updates @excelsiorumc, too, [...]
Mission: Iowa 2010 – Day 5
Posted in Mission: Iowa 2010, tagged carpet tacking, cedar rapids, iowa, marion, mission trip, wal-mart, witness on July 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
At last, the final day of Mission: Iowa 2010! Note that this isn’t the final blog entry for the trip. Expect more entries this week, including a wrap-up from today, additional photos in new posts and added retro-actively to older posts, some video footage, and posts for those who went on the mission trip to [...]
Mission: Iowa 2010 – Day 4
Posted in Mission: Iowa 2010, tagged cedar rapids, iowa, mission trip on July 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Okay, dear reader, I’m under the pressure of deadline and so this post is missing not only details but also photos. I’ll get them up in the next twenty-four hours. In the meantime… Bearing Witness This morning’s wake-up bell went off in the early part of the 7:00am hour so we had enough time to [...]
Mission: Iowa 2010 – Day 3
Posted in Mission: Iowa 2010, tagged americorps, cedar rapids, cooking for fifty, dr. strangelove, GPS, iowa, kernals, kiss cam, mazie, meatborg, mission trip, mollys, smorgasborg, stormtrooper, trevor's mom, tuck, water boy on July 11, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Good morning, dear reader. We gladly took the opportunity to sleep in just a bit today and didn’t go out to the worksites until 9:00am. LouAnn and Bob whipped up a great breakfast of scrambled eggs with ham and sausage. I asked LouAnn if she’s used to cooking for so many people and she told [...]
Mission: Iowa 2010 – Day 2
Posted in Mission: Iowa 2010, tagged BBQ, block by block, cedar rapids, iowa, karate, mission trip, painting, relief, swimming, tucking on July 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Greetings, dear reader. Just a quick note to say I’ve added photos to yesterday’s blog post about Day 1, if you wanted to head back that way. Also, it looks like Faith Journey Life Journey is off to a great start with over 150 independent visitors in its first twenty-four hours of existence. Thank you [...]
Mission: Iowa 2010 – Day 1
Posted in Mission: Iowa 2010, tagged cedar rapids, flood relief, hope, iowa, mazie, minnetonka, mission trip on July 9, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Hey parents, friends, and family, Forty-five people from Excelsior United Methodist Church and Minnetonka United Methodist Church are on a mission trip in Cedar Rapids, Iowa this week and this is our tale. I’m Nate Melcher, the Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries at Excelsior United Methodist Church and I’ll be blogging throughout the [...]
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