GRACE ABOUNDS

Blue Springs, MO a first time event that is at a high school, sounds like a nightmare right? it was actually a dream i mean other than...

Spokane Valley, WA while yes, this weekend i did spend about 12 hours in the denver airport due to layovers, it was worth it for this...

Lakewood, CO when i say i was raised in texas, i mean it. i grew up doing tornado drills in school, so with last week being the second...

Austin, TX this was my third time to Austin for an event, but it was special, this one was with my family. when i was growing up, my...

Fargo, ND walking into an event as established as this, 9 years in the making, 2 million meals at the junior hockey arena in Fargo, was...

Houston, TX a whole month off. a whole month. to rest. to learn. to readjust. rest is something that is so profoundly simple. something...

Cape Girardeau, MO this event was somehow the perfect mix of newness && familiarity. since i had worked an event in Jackson, MO, i saw...

Lorton, VA this was not my first time in VA and it was not their first rodeo either. yet this was an event that felt slightly daunting to...

Nappanee, IN this was a homecoming i have been waiting for. a community that i so deeply fell in love with a year ago. a group of people...

Barrington, NH 34. that's how many states i have been to now. 9 of those have been with this job. that is crazy && cool to think about....

Idaho Falls, ID my first time in Idaho. a state i didn't know much about other than potatoes. i didn't realize how close we were to the...

Little Rock, AR for a first time event, this was amazing. they had so much excitement && interest for their event, that the day before we...

Austin, TX now this was an event unlike any other that i have worked. we drove down to austin, laughing, && stopping at Buc-ee's on the...

St. Louis, MO the most quotable trip i have been on to date. but i'll come back to that. i didn't know everyone on my team, but that was...

Wichita, KS my first trip post-camp & man was it a wake-up call. it was familiar && easy in the sense that i knew what i was doing. it...

Broken Arrow, OK when i found out we were flying to tulsa, i thought it was a joke. like seriously. in high school, we would drive up...

Austin, TX much like the fort worth event, we drove to this one. and i know that i said driving to an event didn't really make it feel...

Jackson, MO here i go again adding another state to my list, 26 overall, but 8th with this job alone. i have become used to seeing new...

Willow Street, PA my first time in PA, in a little town about halfway between harrisburg and philadelphia. a tiny town that is about 4...

Ocean Springs, MS this trip started out rocky. we suddenly went from a team of 4 to having to switch supervisors and lose another team...