Whaaaaat

These guys are pretty awesome. In spite of some fairly serious incidents and moments of anger and frustration yesterday, the young men bounced back so well this morning. Most of them are making their way over the wall to a place where they can actually begin to listen...

Passion & Purpose

We are beginning to make some serious progress with the boys! The first 2 days offered many challenges, however, walls are beginning to come down and our leaders are starting to have some great conversations with the teens. While all the leaders have been intentional...

Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth

Good morning friends and family. As we start our third day I would like to thank God for the young men and their courage that they show us every day, it is not easy to be out of your comfort zone then asked to grow and challenge yourself. As they look to us for...

Transformations

Wow, what a day!  God provided us with so many opportunities, experiences and blessings today.  As I sit down to write this blog it’s hard for me to find a focus given all of the things that happened.  I’m also feeling a sense of guilt for those of you...

What Goes Up Must Come Down

We had a great start to the day with a healthy meal and some devotions about controlling our anger and how we react to others. It was a beautiful day to do some rock wall climbing up to the zip line which made for a much faster trip down. It was pretty awesome to see...

The BIG lake and our BIG God!

Today was a great day! It’s really late and the team is exhausted, but I wanted to be sure to get a quick post up for everyone! We kicked off day 1 by taking the boys to a beautiful, secluded, 12 acre property on Lake Michigan near South Haven.  The boys quickly...