Day 1...of blogging; Day 11 of being accepted!

For 11 days now, my wife and I have known that we have been accepted to go on this mission trip to the Dominican Republic to help with the construction of a church. The exact details of what we will be doing are not known to us, but we have our first meeting coming up soon. Ashley and I were so happy to find out that we were accepted to go on this trip! We thought about how great it will be be to go to this place her and I have never been to before and to just work out of the love of God.

Those were great thoughts, but then the second thought came creeping in: How will we pay for this trip? This won't be a "cheap" trip (that is a relative word, as all words are) so we will have to start raising some funds. I went on a Yahoo website (Yahoo, I will take promotional donations) and found that someone asked, "What companies donate money for missions trips?" I thought this might be something helpful to read. The writer who responded to this question went on to discuss some really good points and recommendations. One of those was to start-up a blog to show the progression and updates of our attempts to raise money and prepare for the trip. Just as producers like to see what they are giving money to, those who help fund trips like to see the same, I guess. S0 this blog is dedicated to our mission trip so that all of those who contribute to our plans, rather through prayers or funds, can be updated. We thank you all for helping God's plans out, and I will type to you later.

* If you would like to visit the website about our trip created by North Point Church here is the link:
http://www.globalxm.org/partner_detail.jsp?pid=3

You can watch a video and read more about the purpose of our trip!