5/16/2005 04:37:00 PM|||Joel VandenBrink|||

I leave for emergent tomorrow morning. I'll be hopping on a plane at 11:16 tomorrow morning, hitting a layover in Denver and ending up in Nashville sometime early evening. My hopes, for myself at this convention are the following:

1. That my hope in the emergent conversation would be re-kindled where necessary and that I would be able to be 'righteously' angry where necessary.
2. That I would connect with mission movers are the country who are doing similar things to me. So that we can be supportive of each other, sojourners on this ridiculous journey.
3. That I will be able to connect with the people that I am on the trip with (Tom, Zach, Meredith, Karen, Dan, and Dwight)

My hopes for Mars Hill at this convention are:

1. That I will find one brave soul who is willing to move to Seattle and become a student of Mars Hill.
2. That, in general, more people will be blessed by the us, than us by them. (although it would be nice to be blessed as well).

I hope to connect to the web and upload my thoughts. But I'm Dutch and so if it costs me money I won't do it and I will just wait until I get back to Seattle to upload them.

peace
Joel

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