Two weekends ago now (November 20th and 21st) Chestnut Ridge Church hosted the 58 Conference.  This conference is geared towards middle and high school age kids from all over West Virginia to help them grow closer to God and help them love others more. You might be wondering where this 58 comes from.  Is it [...]

  As many of you may or may not know, I volunteer with an organization called Nuru International.  This non-government organization non-profit is about bringing an end to extreme poverty in the world one community at a time through the empowerment of the people where extreme poverty is defined as living on less than a [...]

“Dance, then, wherever you may be I am the Lord of the Dance, said he And I’ll lead you all wherever you may be And I’ll lead you all in the dance, said he” Sorry, no video this time around but if you click the play button above you will be treated to a very [...]

That is the number of miles I have driven since departing from Morgantown on May 29th.  I still have roughly 300 more miles to go before the first trip of the summer is complete.  Check out the map below to see where I have been and will be going.  I will describe where and why [...]

This post is 3 days late but yesterday I had a deep thought.  On April 16, 2007, one student killed 32 of his fellow university students and professors.  To this day there has not been a massacre like this on a college campus – although there have been other mass shootings on college campuses (Northern [...]

Recently while playing a random assortment of music this song popped up and I remembered why I like Relient K.  Have you ever struggled with moving forward in life, taking the blind plunge into the known or unknown?  I know that for 100% fact that I struggle with this, sometimes even on a daily basis.  [...]

Before you get judgmental and questioning my choice in videos you must read on.  Even though this song has been around since 1999, I just recently discovered it and I really like it.  I just graduate of West Virginia University with a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.  Even though this [...]

Well, the video above explains it pretty well… our world is broken.  The use of “our” is correct because we are all a part of the same world.  Another World is Possible is a week long series of events designed to bring awareness to the issues touched on in the video.  Genocide, clean water, AIDS, [...]