Milestones

So much for the nice sunny warm weather. I suppose it is March in Western PA, after all! Amy and I have now all but wrapped the Pennsylvania leg of the MegaTransect. We have enjoyed an excellent week connecting and reconnecting with our Johnstown Team. Sunday morning we spoke at a church that was planted by a number of the folks we worked closely with back when I served as a youth director in Johnstown.
Over the past six years, it has always been both and encouraging and humbling experience to return to Johnstown. I spent a lot of time when I lived in Johnstown not particularly liking Johnstown. Now, if it weren't for the friends and churches of Johnstown, Amy and I would not be able to do what we do with Alongside. I've come to realize that there are two layers to that: we couldn't do what we do without the current support of churches and families in Johnstown, and we wouldn't be able to do what we do without the background and experiences those same churches and families gave us while we were living in Johnstown. That's pretty cool.
Sunday afternoon we spent some time with one of my oldest friends and his family. His son, Ben, let me play with the coolest toy I've seen in a long time: a Nerf dart pistol. I want one!
Andrew