Colorado

In August Lori and I rode the bike to Colorado for a week. The trip was a vacation and a scouting trip. Vacation because Colorado is an excellent destination and I could not think of a better traveling partner than Lori. Scouting trip because we are looking for the place we will be moving to in two years. Prior to my starting seminary, Lori and I agreed that we would move wherever we needed to in order to be used by God in whatever way He pleased.

Here are a few of the vacation activities for Lori and I during the week.

• We ate dinner at Lori’s Hacienda in Garden City, Kansas.


• We visited the Great Sand Dunes near Alamosa.


• We rode the bike through the mountains, retracing part of a trip we took with the boys about ten years ago.


• We rode across trail ridge road in Rocky Mountain National Park.

The scouting trip included talking with three SBC leaders about church planting opportunities, visited the third service of a new church, stayed with a church planter and spent time in Fort Collins.

What are the results of the trip? We rode over 2,500 miles on the bike. We found a potential place to live in the city of Fort Collins. We decided to pursue an internship for next summer to try Colorado and church planting on for an extended period. That was a successful trip!