Ten Days, Away... I'm OUTA-HERE!
Graduation at Belmont is over. The campus is quiet. Faculty have, for the most part, scattered into the wind (and rain). And I am headed off for 10 days with Belmont's sports evangelism team to work in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
My first trip to Rio was 39 years ago (ouch) to participate in the first Pan American Boy Scout Jamboree...that was a life changing experience for me, my first venture beyond the borders of the USA and an awakening to other cultures. This trip will be a life changing experience for all of us, I am sure. This time, one of my responsibilities is to record what happens throughout the trip, much like an embedded journalist (which I am not)...but with the participants/leaders actively involved in a blog, The Rio Journal. I have high hopes that the blog will accomplish several objectives: