The journey of Sea to Sea begins!

Sea to Sea is a cross country bike ride raising awareness and funds to fight poverty.  The CRC and RCA churches have partnered together to form the largest cross-continental bike ride ever!
I wish we had participated in 2008 when the last ride was held, but the excuses were easy to come by.
This round of the tour 5 years later life is still very full.  Excuses are still abundant, but God's call to step out was also still beckoning.
Katie and I discussed this a few times and decided to pray about our participation for a week to hear what God had in store for us.   That Sunday was World Hunger Sunday, and God let us know.  Our pastor, Bob Huisman, said that he was glad that we were the kind of church community that our kids grow up involved and have constant reminders of what it looks like to serve.  Our biggest worry and excuse was about the girls.  Questions like who would take them, could we all survive without each other for an entire week?  God was giving us the reassurance to make the commitment to ride.
At school on Monday morning we get prayer partners.  Praying for me that week was Loralee Bruxvoort.  She asked what prayer requests I had.  I mentioned that we were looking for someone willing to take our girls for the week, could she pray that we could find someone.  She replied, "Sure, I'll do it!"  I guess sometimes we can pray together with our eyes open!  This was one of those moments.
So we are in!  We have registered and begun to raise funds.  Katie and I spoke at church today about the ride and we were asked to start this blog.

I hope that this will serve as a way for people to connect with us as we prepare and as we ride the tour.  Katie and I will both be posting here.