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1. No, I’m not jumping on orphans.

2. No, I’m not holding JR’s hand.
Well, I just got back from a trip with Back 2 Back Ministries. I used to be on staff there doing high school ministry about six years ago and this was my second time to Monterrey.

This trip was amazing though for a few reasons. We were able to really hear the passion and vision of the workers down there who are giving their lives to reach these kids for Christ and who are meetings the physical needs as well. Todd and Beth, the directors were doing a missions trip about 11 years ago and they went to this orphanage and decided to host a BBQ. They were cooking the hamburgers and couldn’t believe how many the kids were eating. Todd thought that something wasn’t right, and asked his wife to follow the kids and see where the hamburgers were going. She followed a little girl into the bedroom and realized that the kids were taking the burgers and stashing them under their beds because they didn’t know when they would see meat again. Sad. That’s what captured their hearts though. We met a lady who decided to stay in the slums to minister to the people there even though she could leave if she wanted to. The slums smelled like crap. There were shelters without roofs. There were pigs eating garbage. There were neighbors with guns and knives. There were neighbors practicing witchcraft. It was intense. We were also able to go to Raylitos De Luz (Rays Of Light) the most humble of children’s home which had 17 kids and a husband and wife team that took these kids in. The all lived in a two bedroom house and had barely a pat

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There’s something about getting older that makes you want to be more comfortable-an old dog won’t learn new tricks and that sort of thing. Well, my post below I think might be illuminating this in my life a bit. I was pretty set on buying a banjitar, you know since I already play guitar I won’t have to deal with learning a whole new instrument etc… So, Suzanne and I go to Elderly and I play the banjitar a bit and it sounds a little like a banjo, but maybe more like a guitar than I had remembered. So I started messing around with a real banjo and realized that it’s tuned in open G which isn’t really that hard of a tuning to learn. So I messed around and plugged in an electric 5-string banjo and the difference in sound was significant. So, I’m going for it. As soon as I can save up enough money, I’m going to buy a banjo and learn how to play it.

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UPDATE, I’m selling the guitar on Ebay if you are interested: Here
I’m selling a couple of items because I’m hoping to buy a “banjitar” (yes, hybrid banjo/guitar) to use at Riverview.

I have a great playing, great sounding electric. It’s a Danelectro 56 Pro Limited Edition that I’m asking $425. You can’t find these anymore new and they are selling for over $500 on Ebay, so this is a good deal. I’ve played the guitar many times at Riverview, so if you go there, you’ve heard it. It’s in great shape, has some slight scratches, because I’ve played it, but looks good, sounds good etc…

I’m also selling a Pignose 7-100 amp. It’s a practice amp, that I honestly just haven’t used. It’s portable and can be used with batteries or an A/C adapter. Very cool little amp. I’ll give it away for $65.

Please let me know if you are interested!

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I just got back from a week long Christmas Vacation. It started off with Christmas Eve dinner were my mom made her famous Festival Chicken for 30 + people.

Then Christmas morning we got the surprise news that I shared below. Thursday, we helped Ron move his furniture into my mom’s place. On Friday I drove to Indianapolis for Ignite

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Then I drove back to Akron the next day for worship band practice with my brothers at My mom’s church. We led worship the next morning at Grace Summit.

The next day my Mom and Ron got married!

Now we are back and getting into the routine, although I did take Jaden sledding for the first time ever today. He loved it. Overall it was a good break, but we are glad to be back sleeping in our own beds. Every we leave home we miss our “other” family at Riv.

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