Video - Day 1

From Gassaway, WV to Davenport, IA. A stop in Indianapolis and a surprise airshow upon our arrival at Davenport. A couple notes on the video. To view full screen, click the four arrows icon. If you have a dial-up internet connection, you may have problems watching the high definition video. Click the "HD on" logo, to turn this off and performance should improve.

Hi from Iowa!!

Marsha, Allison, April and I are having a girls slumber party here at the hotel in Davenport, Iowa. 12 hours, 709 miles later we have made it this far. Thank goodness too, because we could not have spent much more time in the vans.

Allison says she is having a blast so far.

Bur-nard, we miss you! Pray for us please. Love, Marsha

Dad, Mom and I miss you a lot and we will keep in touch during the upcoming weeks. Love, Logan and Brenda

We will blog again tomorrow!!

First Day of Travel

The first day of traveling went by quite fast. We spent twelve hours in a van so we not only saw many different environments but also got to know the people we were traveling with very well. Everyone got along very well so it made the first day of traveling seem to go by even faster. From our perspective of today the outlook of this mission will be very productive and enjoyable. Hopefully the next day of traveling will be just as quick.

The First 709 Miles of Our Trip.

This day has went by so fast. The beginning of our trip started out slow because everyone was so tired and wanted to sleep, but as the day progressed, everyone started to wake up and enjoy spending time with each other. In the van i was on, Charity Ramsey, Tori Skinner, Remy Skinner, Matt Bailey, and I played different games like the alphabet game and ha-ha. We stopped in Indianapolis, Indiana to eat and stretch our legs for about an hour. After we ate, everyone took window chalk and wrote different things on the windows of the vans like their names or montana bound and other things. The last part of our drive to the hotel we are staying at went by the fastest. It was a lot of fun and I can't wait to see what the rest of the trip brings.
- Tyler Hamrick

Day 1 - Logan Morlan

Today went by fast. I thought it would take forever to get to the hotel, but it didn’t. The kids in my van were always asleep so it was pretty quiet. When we arrived at the hotel Frankie tried to tell a man who didn’t speak English very well to fix a light. But like I said before the day went by fast and I really hope tomorrow will go just as fast.

Day 1 Destination - Davenport, IA

As I'm writing this we are on the road headed to Davenport, IA. So far so good with all 5 vans. I will post a video later tonight from today's trek. One minor wrong turn took us through the middle of Indianapolis today, other than that, everything has gone according to plan. You can keep an eye on exactly where we are on the map on the top right of this page. Expect a video and blog posts from the some of the youth themselves tonight.

The mission begins tomorrow

Tomorrow we will be leaving for the Crow Agency Reservation in Montana. I wanted to put this post out there so you would know how we plan to use this blog page over the next 2 weeks. If everything goes to plan, there will be blog entries from various youth daily here. Also, there will be a wrap-up video for the events of the particular day. This might be posted very late at night or very early in the morning. If you would like to leave comments for the youth that are writing these entries, click the comment button below the specific posting. You do not need to sign up for any account when you do this, specific comment instructions are in the right column. Also, for those of you that are within driving distance to Gassaway Baptist Church, we plan to have a live video feed from Montana established for this sunday morning's services. Finally, for the drive out there, if you are curious how far along we are, check out the map in the top right corner. This will be tracking my cell phone as we travel. As long as I stay with the rest of the group, you will know where we are. Underneath all the gadgets and gizmos that we have set up for this trip is a real mission to serve real people many miles away. Please be in prayer for us over the next couple of weeks and hopefully this all works as planned.