Last night Alli and I arrived in Sacramento for a SHORT stayover before pushing off this morning for Los Angeles. Yesterday was our longest travel day as we logged over 14 hours on the road between Seattle and Sacramento.
Our event in Boise, Idaho was outstanding. This was the first-ever HOPE event held in the state of Idaho and we were really greeted warmly by the friends and family of Mark Russell, HOPE’s Director of Spiritual Integration, who is based in Boise. There were close to 20 who gathered at Mark’s church for a desserts and coffee. Mark and I both shared about our work around the globe. Sorry for the lack of pictures–we are getting progressively worse at remembering to take them. Also, Alli, our main photographer, was preoccupied at this event as she served as the fill-in childcare for five little Boiseans.
From Boise, we went straight to Seattle. As soon as we got about an hour from Seattle, we got slammed with a the first rain storm of the trip, which we found very fitting. We hosted a breakfast yesterday morning for a group of students from Seattle Pacific University, who is partnering with HOPE to expand our work in the Dominican Republic to a new community bank in Puerto Plata, and a group of other HOPE supporters from the Seattle region. The event was held on the gorgeous Lake Washington at The Woodmark Hotel (picture below).
Thus far, we have hosted seven events, with over 150 individuals at those events collectively. We have traveled well over 4,000 miles and driven through 11 states. And the journey continues…
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