A Day in the Life (heretofore: ADL) took me to Washington DC on Thursday and Friday. Daniel Clark, outreach director for Children’s HopeChest and I met with Senator James Inhofe of Okalahoma. We were supposed to spend just ten minutes together but an hour and a half later, we were still meeting. Senator Inhofe is an amazing man, a Christian, and the biggest advocate for Africa we have in the Senate. He has an adopted granddaughter from Ethiopia, which was exciting to find out since we are beginning plans to start programs in that country..

That evening I spoke and Daniel led worship at National Community Church, better known as Theatre Church at one of their locations, Ebenezer’s Coffee House, close to Capitol hill. My friend Rose has pictures and info about the night on her blog. The next morning I was up at the crack of dawn speaking at the Joint Council for International Children’s Services conference. There were some wonderful people attending, I made many new friends and saw some old ones like Janie VanDyke from Bethany Christian Services in Grand Rapids and Scott Brown from Gladney Adoption in Ft. Worth.

A lunch with my friend John, a pastor at NCC, and off to the plane. Whew! This weekend was full with three soccer games and four basketball games with our kids.

Off tomorrow for South Bend, Indiana. Talk to you from there!