Aug 252007
 

femurlowpos.jpgToday we can home from a little bit of unsuccessful shopping.  As we pulled into our house we saw a large bone in our neighbor’s driveway.  After a little convincing Teresa went to take a quick look at it.

She came in the house and said, “It’s a femur.  It’s too big to be a deer.  So it is either a big mammal or a human.”

“Really?” I replied.  “You should go get it and find out for sure.”

She hesitated.

“I’ll go get it!”  I said.  I went to get a plastic grocery bag, but Teresa redirected me.

“Get a gallon zip-lock, so we don’t have to take it out when I get to the lab.

I did as she said and ran out to our neighbor’s driveway.

But
the
bone
was
gone.

We are pretty sure our neighbor saw Teresa inspecting the bone of her boyfriend, whom she recently killed.  When Teresa came back inside our neighbor ran out to hide the evidence.

We always get sketchy neighbors.

Aug 132007
 

As I right this my friend Meredith is sitting behind me working on her computer. She came into town with boyfriend Geoff for a day and decided to stick around a little longer because her car was being fussy. Meaning it just stopped working while she was trying to get away.

What she doesn’t know is that it was really part of our diabolical plan to keep her in Nashville and to recruit her to be part of our community here. She has been trying to recruit us to go to the Middle East with her for a long time now. We decided to turn the tables on her and to use a little thing we call “car trouble” to allow her to hear the voice of the Lord telling her to move to Nashville.

Jul 302007
 

summer_mission_Atlanta.jpgIf you have ever been on a short term mission with a youth group you know that there are all sorts of possible issues surrounding short term trips. Like, do they actually benefit the people you are serving? Are your students growing in their faith? Who is being blessed by your ministry?

When I took some students on our summer trip a couple of weeks ago all of these came up. We worked with a VERY large organization that produces hundreds of trips a summer. All you have to do is get a few people to sign up and then show up on time. It is very easy. Continue reading »

Jun 012007
 
bones.jpgTeresa recently spent all morning macerating a dead animal for a zooarchaeology comparative collection.  The contest is to see who can guess what animal this is.  The spoon is size comparison.  Leave a comment to let us know what you think it is.    Â