welcome to the adventure!

i'll try and update at least once a week...on tuesday nights for now, we'll see if that changes once i get to belfast and set up a solid life/work schedule. come after me via angry emails if i don't. also, if you're in the facebook group, you should receive a message any time a new blog post happens, and especially when i send out my official quarterly-ish newsletter.

to catch you up if you have no idea what i'm actually doing, i'm working with the presbyterian church (u.s.a.) through a 1-year service program called 'young adult volunteers.' you will always be able to link to their website (and other important things) under the 'relevant things' section to the left. (there's also a link for donating to me! hurray!)

in march 2009, all of the prospective young adult volunteers (yav's) came together at louisville seminary in louisville, kentucky. after much airport hassle, i arrived as well, and found myself in the middle of an incredibly spiritual weekend of discernment, fellowship, and learning. both parties (myself and the site coordinators) were equally involved and important in this placement process...i made clear where i felt called to serve, and the coordinators made clear who they wanted to serve with them. i left with a plan, and the promise of living in belfast from september 2009 to august 2010. (incidentally, it also took me about 19 hours to get back to williamsburg from louisville...what should have been a three hour plane ride or 9 hour drive...epic airport fail).

more specifically, i'll be living in belfast along with nine other yav's and working with the east belfast mission of the methodist church in ireland, and their shelter, the hosford house.

i ask for your support, whatever kind you can give (prayer, hugs, letters and emails, care packages, donations funding my travel and living expenses, etc...), during this adventure. it will be a challenging, yet enlightening experience, and i am far too excited to set out on it, but i clearly cannot forget you, the friends and family who brought me here.