Day four in Anchorage is slowly coming to a close as most people we know our sound asleep right now. It is 11:22pm local time, 3:22am on Friday for most of our family and friends back home in the Southeast. Back home on Poinsett Ave the night has grown old and I am sure Dexter(our lab) is snoring away amidst the humid June night. Here in Anchorage, the sun is starting to set, the weather is cool, but not cold and I am wide awake!!
I don't know how the local people make it up here. Don't get me wrong, the scenery is incredible and the weather is really good right now. However, I don't think I could get adjusted to the long summer days and the darkness that never leaves in the winter. It is truly a different place to live. Animals like moose and bear are all over, in fact, I am one of the last on our team to have not caught a moose in the wild. Most of the players have had the privilege to see one in the wild. I am going on four consecutive days with no moose sighting.
We just finished playing our third game here in Alaska and won tonight 3-2 in 10 innings. It was a wild game. We had 13 hits while the Anchorage Bucs only had two hits. It took us ten innings to win and would have been a very tough loss had we not pulled it out. Hard to swallow a loss after you outhit your opponent 13-2. Our guys stay focused and pulled it out.
We have started a new series in discipleship. Chris is talking about LSD.........love, sex and dating. It is a powerful series with young college men opening up like they are during the sessions. We have some really strong young men in terms of their faith and we have some that are questioning their strength and others that are looking for answers involving their relationship with Christ. Keep this team in your prayers as we continue this summer developing and fostering relationships.
We had some time this morning to travel down the Seward Hwy and take in some of the beauty of Alaska. I have updated some photos, click here, to view.
We traveled down the Seward Hwy and viewed some snow capped mountains along the water. It was a great stretch of land.
Well, it's close to midnight here and time for a quick snack before bed. It will soon be time to start the day back over with discipleship at 2:30pm and then our 4th game in a row at 7pm. We wrap our first week up here in Anchorage on Saturday night with another 7pm game and then it's off to Fairbanks. A seven hour drive on Sunday will put us "home" for a stretch of time and allow us to unpack our bags.
I don't know how the local people make it up here. Don't get me wrong, the scenery is incredible and the weather is really good right now. However, I don't think I could get adjusted to the long summer days and the darkness that never leaves in the winter. It is truly a different place to live. Animals like moose and bear are all over, in fact, I am one of the last on our team to have not caught a moose in the wild. Most of the players have had the privilege to see one in the wild. I am going on four consecutive days with no moose sighting.
We just finished playing our third game here in Alaska and won tonight 3-2 in 10 innings. It was a wild game. We had 13 hits while the Anchorage Bucs only had two hits. It took us ten innings to win and would have been a very tough loss had we not pulled it out. Hard to swallow a loss after you outhit your opponent 13-2. Our guys stay focused and pulled it out.
We have started a new series in discipleship. Chris is talking about LSD.........love, sex and dating. It is a powerful series with young college men opening up like they are during the sessions. We have some really strong young men in terms of their faith and we have some that are questioning their strength and others that are looking for answers involving their relationship with Christ. Keep this team in your prayers as we continue this summer developing and fostering relationships.
We had some time this morning to travel down the Seward Hwy and take in some of the beauty of Alaska. I have updated some photos, click here, to view.
We traveled down the Seward Hwy and viewed some snow capped mountains along the water. It was a great stretch of land.
Well, it's close to midnight here and time for a quick snack before bed. It will soon be time to start the day back over with discipleship at 2:30pm and then our 4th game in a row at 7pm. We wrap our first week up here in Anchorage on Saturday night with another 7pm game and then it's off to Fairbanks. A seven hour drive on Sunday will put us "home" for a stretch of time and allow us to unpack our bags.
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