Horses of North Carolina

Hello hello! It's been a great time down in Wilmington, NC so far. Sarah and I have really enjoyed working with the staff of LT (Leadership Training) and getting to know the students from Virginia Tech, Radford and Ball State. It's been a relaxing time as well as a productive time. But I am looking forward to getting back to WV in a week and a half and getting ready for ministry there in the fall.

Just wanted to show some pictures of an AWESOME time Sarah and I had last night: we got to go horse riding! I've always dreamt of someday having a horse and some land, and so this was neat to finally get some experience riding. Interestingly, my horse's name was Sarah. How about that?! Sarah (my wife) rode Star. We loved it.

My view from the saddle:

Sarah on Star:

Me and Sarah (the horse):

After the ride, back at the barn:

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Hello! Just wanted to say sorry for not updating in a while. Been busy! But that's no excuse of course. Sarah and I have been in Wilmington, NC for a week (we traveled down on July 2nd, our 1st wedding anniversary!) and we'll be here the rest of July helping with Great Commission Ministries' Leadership Training [LT] program. It's for college students, to give them 10 weeks of a summer to maintain a job in different setting, to grow in their faith and knowledge of the Word, and to have unique opportunities to have a positive impact for Christ in the lives of new friends they meet (on the job or on the beach!) in an 'aggressively relational' approach. Sarah and I assist in a few different areas of the program; I'll blog more on that later.

For now, for your viewing pleasure, I'll leave you with a seagull on Wrightsville Beach for whom I waited patiently to stand on one leg as I've seen seagulls often do. It took this one a while to get comfortable enough to do so. I think the one-leg position is a relaxed posture for the seagull, and I don't think they settle into it until they feel pretty safe (which can be hard with us humans hanging around). The reason I think this is that they have slightly less time to prepare for flight when they're on one leg. Any seagull experts out there want to confirm or deny my theory?