After Emily gets off work tomorrow we will embark on a road trip of epic proportions, well not really, but it should be fun. We will be heading north to the annual CCDA (Christian Community Development Association) conference in Indianapolis. We will be attending the conference as well as working the John Perkins foundation book selling both. The conference is a large meeting of people from all over the country who are living and working in poor communities. John Perkins founded the association many years ago and is still co- president. This will be our third year at the conference and we feel we have more to learn than ever before. Each day is filled with workshops and discussions on all sorts of things related to urban community development. I’m hoping to attend a workshop on running an after school program. We hope to be encouraged as we interact with others during the 4-day conference.
After the conference we will drive to New York City with our friends Matt and Jacinda to hang in the big apple for a few days. They moved to Manhattan in August so Matt could attend graduate school at Columbia.
Then we will head further North to spend Thanksgiving in Boston with the Robinson family. Jacob and Amy moved from Portland to Boston a few years ago and it will be our first time visiting them in their new city. We are also excited to meet the newest Robinson in the family, Samuel.
After that it will be a long haul down through the Eastern U.S. back to Mississippi.
I’m considering a daily road journal for the blog during our travels so check back for updates and photo journals.
Hope everyone is well.
Johnny
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It's funny, last week I was talking to one of my friends, and we figured out that we have similar friends. I think he has met you before, Johnny, but he's good friends with Matt whome I met the one night at your concert. In fact he used to play with the band "Dandilyon something." His name is Kevin, and he's a sweet dude just like you. Have fun in the big apple, and say hi to jo mamma for me when you go her house.
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