welcome to our world

if you know us at all, and if we have ever visited you, you will likely smile with the slightly painful memeory of the last time we showed up in cover of darkness and asked you wake up and give us shelter... somehow we always seem to arrive and travel in the same way. although we never intended it to be this way, it would seem that God has moved us around like nomadic 'vontraps' and has used us [?] in a number of different places with a number of different people. from chicago to mt. hood to ohio to swaziland, we find ourselves sent to places and projects we could only dream of. we do not travel with the grace or musical charm of the originals, but the boys can serve up a mean hip-hop version of "do-re-mi" in a pinch. we love Jesus passionately, attempt to hear from Him regularly and serve Him in that same fashion, and we are trying to grow ourselves and our boys up in that general direction ... but find in the end that our journey and it's details are the best proof of our real need for the belay of Grace. we love sand and snow and the boards that go with them both, and currently find ourselves pursuing Him in the middle of one of the greatest crises of all time - HIV in Africa.