Fresh Eyes – Honduras

March 22nd, 2011 | filed under: Personal, photo | tags: , , |

I’m back from the good ol’ Honduras. It’s been an amazing ride this past week and my mind since then has been constantly thinking of Honduras and the people we interacted with.

I have learned so much. Honduras has shown me some things that I’ve never seen before. I’ve been able to see first hand that God’s church goes much further than my small corner of the world. It’s pretty amazing.

I’ve been thinking about this place so much the last few days but I can’t seem to put these thoughts to words. Maybe I’ll come up with more complete thoughts sometime in the future.  :)  In short– God is good.

Here’s a brief synopsis in pictures of the week:

We became quite familiar with this bus by the end of the week.

Building a house for a family.

Oscar explaining the task at hand (painting) to the fearless co-leader Amy.

Painting… (before) / (after)

More painting.  What a great color.  :)

Driving away from the orphanage was incredibly hard. The kids were just amazing.

We did a lot with the students at the Baxter Institute.

What’s cooler than cool?

This group. :)

~ Jon

Come back from California

August 12th, 2010 | filed under: Personal, photo | tags: , |

I’m back from California.

It was a blast.  It was good seeing the long lost two sisters of mine.  We did a lot of sight-seeing and having good times.  These pictures are mostly touristy pictures…so beware.

I almost wrote a list of what I like about California.  I got bored. In short: 1. Interesting People  2. Sweet landscape / topography.  The rest…in picture.

[Note: most of the pictures have captions when you click on them (or mouse-over).]

Leeland.  great guy.  :)

The family minus me minus the parentals.

This was one of my favorite parts. We ditched the paths and just headed straight up the mountain.

This happens to be a fun road to drive down.

The sisters!  They’re all awesome, for the record.  :)

The bros, plus David.

This kid looked pretty awesome.  You could say he’s a baller.

A pano I took from the plane.  I really love all the mountains and crazy landscapes in CA.  The topography and look changes so much from place to place.

~ Jon