MAP Weekend In Grand Rapids
John, you were right. Smashburger is the best. The best tasting hamburger. And the sweet potato fries with bits of rosemary. With a cherry Coke. And a charming 7 month old baby girl seated next to me. Doesn’t get much better than that. Sydney is the daughter of Jason and Kelly Pope. It was lunch this afternoon after the MAP Conference in Grand … Read more
Grand Rapids: Mission and Purpose
Later today we will leave the Kroc Center in Grand Rapids MI where we’ve been meeting with 164 delegates of the Mission and Purpose weekend. Great speakers, workshops, and the weather cleared up for work outdoors Saturday afternoon. After lunch MAP delegates divided up into twelve teams of workers to join the Kroc Center’s I’ll … Read more
Southeast Grand Rapids This Evening
I am accompanying the Territorial Youth Secretary this weekend. She is at Little Pine Island Camp for Youth Councils in the Western Michigan and Northern Indiana Division and I get to stay with her, as long as I keep mostly out of sight per our working agreement. This evening I went in to Grand Rapids for … Read more
Kroc Center: Community Development in Grand Rapids
Yesterday I visited the Grand Rapids MI Kroc Center in preparation of the Mission and Purpose Conference, October 28-30, to be hosted at this newest of six Kroc Center openings in the Midwest. In the course of our MAP planning Major Marc Johnson and Captain Peter Mount began sharing the vision for the Grand Rapids Kroc. I tend to think in terms … Read more
