Alaska, that great state

After having spent a summer at camp in Alaska, I am hooked. You may recall that I went to AK a couple years ago to work in a fish cannery. While that was not the best experience of my life, I did return to Alaska a couple years later (last summer) to direct a camp. That was a wonderful experience, and now I find myself homesick for my campers and the great state of Alaska.

Fortunately for me, I will be traveling to Alaska in March! I hear it's still cold then and considering I haven't ever spent a winter in AK, this should be semi-eye openning. :) Anyway, I am planning choir tours for Multnomah University (MU) and our trip this school year is going to be to AK. We're going to travel between cities in the Anchorage/Wasilla track. I have been working on plans for this for the last couple months. Students (and myself) are going to start raising support soon. Choir tours are ministry and outreach focused, so we treat them as mini-mission trips. In a "normal" tour, MU provides the funding, but for a trip to Alaska, students will have to raise a portion to cover flights, and motel and food for a couple days. We are excited about what God is gonna do and how He might use us for His kingdom. :)

As I have been planning for this trip, it hasn't helped with my home-sickness for Alaska! HA! Nope, it has only been heightened. So much so, that my mother and I are now considering a trip up in August! It would be the most whirl-wind of trips, but I think it could be great fun. :)

THEN, while we were thinking and planning our whirl-wind Alaskan adventure, we decided it would be great to have our whole family get to come. So we started planning for an additional trip next July (that's right folks, a year from now!)

So when all is said and done, not one, not two but three trips to the great state that I miss so very much will take place in the next 12 months! Who knows, perhaps there's a fourth trip waiting for me too :) I am looking foward to all the twists and turns this next 12 months might bring along :)

God bless you.
I don't know who reads this anymore, but since I have finished undergrad work, I think I will be updating this more often :)