The Brazilian Embassy of Chicago Approves of Joy and I

Our visas will be here tomorrow!  How exciting!  Joy and I have been attending The Salvage Yard church in Minneapolis.  This church used to be called “the hard-core bible study” but has grown in the last year to a church of about 150 college and inner city young adults.  It’s a ministry connected with Steiger International.  It’s raw, it’s messy but it’s a community built on Jesus.  That last sentence probably doesn’t need a ‘but’ because Jesus communities are always messy.  

Joy and I love the rawness of the church and the authentic passion of the congregation.  And many of our friends that we met in Brazil last year go there, so it’s great to see them.  Joy and I have been preparing our lives to leave for a month; our practical lives and spiritual lives.  I feel like we about to strap ourselves into a large and intense rollercoaster that we have never been on before.  Traveling to dangerous and dirty bars and clubs to proclaim the name of Jesus will certainly bring unexpected turns and dips and rises.  You know that anxious, nervous, excited feeling you get before going on a new ride?  Yep, I got that!