Minister Of Mocha

Recently I have been trying to collect funds to purchase a car for my prison ministry. The car I have is great, but it gets relatively bad gas mileage and with all of the volunteer driving I do for the prisons, I wanted to find something more economical. I did the whole gofundme.com campaign and…

The “holidays” have come and gone. My week between Christmas and New Year was predictably busy and culminated with a fantastically awesome New Year’s Eve Bash at CR. It was all very tremendous. And then I got sick. It may have been a let down after all of the commotion, or perhaps someone at the…

This past week I was blessed with free tickets to see my favorite hockey team. The blessing continued when I was able to get a ride to the game from a different friend. This was going to be a completely free game for me. Two of my favorite things in one swell foop: free and…

Yeah, it sounds wrong, but I’ve got evidence. Let me back track a bit an explain. My wife left me… OK, that’s not exactly right either; let me cut through the nonsense. My daughter wanted to sent my wife and I back to visit the family in Tennessee for Christmas. I wasn’t able to be…

In my 50-some years on this lovely planet I have had the privilege of participating in a wide array of activities. I like to think that I am a fairly well rounded individual, but this weekend I did something new – I performed at an open mic. It was a last minute kind of thing.…

I spend a lot of time with my grandsons. Three are in the same town and one is in Hawaii, but we see each other online. I love them all. As they get older, they do more and more different things that make me proud. For one, it might be making a clever joke, another…

We went to a play this weekend called Come From Away. It was a true story about the planes that were inbound for the US on the morning of the 9/11 attack. One of the wonderful themes that the play dealt with was the humanity shown by the Canadian hosts to their unexpected guests. At…

We made it through the Thanksgiving weekend and are now solidly in the Christmas Season it’s not even that fake, “way too early Walmart starts in July” kind of season, this is the real deal. We celebrated Thanksgiving with a bunch of our family, both the Forever kind and the genetic kind. There was more…

I went to a men’s retreat this weekend. I’m not typically a “men’s retreat” kind of guys, but they needed someone to play bass on the worship team, so I agreed to go. As I was riding down the road with our Worship Pastor, Jason, I watched the vehicle ahead of us kick up a…

“We’re on a mission from God…”. That’s the famous line from Elwood Blues. This morning we are on a mission as well. Our grandson is a fourth grader in the state of California, so that means he’s doing a mission report. By random luck he was given a mission in the middle of nowhere. Since…