Day two..... preparing the way

We started off our day today  at the USS Midway Museum, a retired aircraft carrier. We could have spent hours there going through the extensive structure, but I think we only spent three hours there, counting lunch, we had the beach on our minds! We ventured off to Coronado Island, a kind of private beach, but larger than the one we visited yesterday. It was a bit overcast today so it was a little cooler out, and the water was quite cold as well, but still very enjoyable, the waves beat me up a bit more than they did yesterday, but Austin, Matthew, Chandler, Tyler, Jordan, & BJ seemed to have no trouble with them.

Coronado is a very beautiful place, but just by the surrounding atmosphere and houses, you can just tell how much they value material possessions and image.  I plan on posting more pictures from today, but the blogger website doesn't like me right now, so I'll post some more tomorrow. But Later in the evening we had dinner at Valley Baptist, had some fellowship, and those of us playing music tomorrow ran through our set, and then we had a brief devotion/run through of the next day. Tomorrow will be mostly composed of planning/decorating/preparing for VBS, after church ends at twelve. Again be praying for us and the work God will be doing here, I promise we aren't here just to go to the beach and sight see like we have been for the past two days (though that doesn't sound like a bad idea!).

Most of us made it here safely!

Don't be alarmed by the title of this blog, I just mean we aren't all quite here yet. Today was a great day, for me and Angel we caught the first standby flights we could get in Dayton, and Denver, so we were in San Diego by like 9:45 a.m. their time. BJ & Jen Sanders got to spend time with their old youth pastor today who actuallyworks at a church in Palm Springs, so we didn't catch up with them till later in the evening to get dinner. Saundra's flight was right on time and showed up at the hotel maybe an hour after we got there (atleast thats what they tell me, I was asleep at this point I think) . After a much needed nap, Me, Cathy, Angel, Saundra, Austin, Jordan, and Tyler went to a nearby beach, the water was cold at first but nice, it was pretty cool to still see little instances God was ready to use us by interacting with the locals, even on one of our "free" days. The Rowland's have still yet to ROLL in, ha ha catch that pun? they are taking a more scenic route from the LAX airport, but they will be joining us in the morning to partake in some more leisurely activities. 

Tonight we ate at a restaraunt called "Old California Mining Co" it was really good, and a fun experience. There was this ridiculously large chocolate cake that I ordered, and kind of shared with everyone, though that still didn't make a big dent in it. 

Looking forward to our upcoming work with Valley Baptist Church, and Barabbas Road Church.

We are all on our way to san diego!

Hey Everyone, its thursday night, and I'm awaiting going to go see The Dark Knight  for a midnight showing before I ride up to dayton with Angel Alford for our flight to San Diego, BJ & Jen Are already there, and I believe the Tricquet Family should be there by now, and the Rowland's will be there early afternoon on friday (sorry for not knowing everyone else's status). I'm getting very excited for what God is going to do through the twenty (or so) people going to the west coast for a little over a week. I'm hoping to get asked regularly "why did you come out here if not for vacation" or something of that variety. Statistics tell us that San Diego County (imagine the 275 loop, with downtown san diego being the center, and you have sand diego county) has less than 6% professing christians, that just seems crazy to me in America, so I am stoked to plant seeds and build bridges with Valley Baptist Church, and Barabbas Road Church, along with the ministry we are doing at the La Jolla indian reservation. Stay tuned for daily updates, pictures, and maybe some videos if your lucky! Pray for all of us!