WEEKEND - Gettysburg

What follows are the past few weekends of our traveling adventures.

The first in this series is a trip to Gettysburg, which is about 2.5 hours from where we live. It has been a dream of Sarah's since she was a little girl to go and visit, so... we did. It was really a perfect day, slighty overcast, yet mild weather. We borrowed my friend Dustin's CD guided tour which we listened to in the car and it guided us around the battlefield giving discriptive narrative all along the way at the various points of major happenstance. As well as the a collective overview between those points with interesting background information. The highlight of the trip was that the day we went there were Civil War Re-enactors for both the Union and Confederate sides. We were able to see a great demonstration of some Union infantry show us the techniques used for the musket lines. It was very well done, realistic and loud. Here is a video of the reinactment... it was almost mind-numbing to think that they would line up across from each other and fight like that.

So here we are... on the illustrious battlefield. At the point of Pickett's Charge where they breached the Union lines, and where the this battle's tide was at it's peak and in the final moments of deciding to whom the victory would fall.

All in all, it was a fabulous weekend. And it will always leave a remeberance of the time when our country was once divided and the price that was paid keep it intact to this day.

SEMINARY - Calvary Baptist

This is the real reason we moved half-way across the country, to further our understanding of God in seminary.

Calvary Baptist Church established this seminary as a ministry tool to help teach and train ministers of God's Word. I came in contact with the seminary during on of the church's National Leadership Conference they hold in February. After that I also was a pastoral intern at the church two summers’s ago and was able to take one of the seminary courses through that program. I loved the teaching and how everything was made practical, applicable, and relevant to understanding the whole Bible as a whole in relation the how one would live this life.

So that is why we are here, both Sarah and I are taking courses this semester. She has 6 credits and I have 8. And we trust that God will allow us to us the time effectively so that we can be as adequately prepared as a human can be for His service.