Hello all,

No pictures this time just a short commentary on what has been going on. The first week has flew past yet it feels like I have been here forever already!! Everything here has been amazing! On Saturday I got to experience Portland in its grand weirdness all while sprinting past everything while doing the cityscape race. Cityscape race is a puzzle oriented amazing race style game that takes you throughout the city doing different things along the way! On Sunday I played with the praise team at HPC (Hillsboro Presbyterian Church) and then headed back to the Pownes where I spent Fathers Day with their family. Yesterday I got to see Portland again from a slightly different perspective. A group of the youth were enthusiastic enough at 10 o'clock in the morning to get up and make lunches to take down to the homeless in downtown Portland. The kids were awesome and they really were being the hands and feet of Christ! Later that night we had our first young adults bible study where we began to dive into the book of Romans and inspired great conversation among some great people. On Friday I leave for the Mid-High camp at Suttle Lake and I couldn't be more excited!! God is already doing some great things and I can't wait to see what else he has planned!!

(since I leave Friday and won't be back till next Friday, I probably am not gonna post anything until the Monday or Tuesday after I get back)