Blast From The Past

Back in 2000, our student ministry did a couple of things that were pretty much cutting-edge for our church: First, we took a group to Holland for a completely evangelism focused mission trip. You know, wake up, pray, find somebody to build a relationship with a present the message of God's grace. Second, we had our own web page of photos and blogs that we updated daily. It was so much fun to have everybody write and folks back home send back their comments. We read them over dinner each night...and people said they lost about an hour's worth of work each day checking up on us. Back then, blogging was such a new thing...the last two trips haven't been as well-surfed.

Anyway, my friend Joshua was in charge of our website and would put a photo that kind of described the day on the entry page of our site. Well, after 15 or 16 photos, many photos were starting to look similar. So, we decided to stage one that might get folks curious. I guess Joshua was clearing out some files and sent me this one:



Dutch police really don't look all that menacing, and I was sportin' the hairstyle that caused Liz to say, "Brent, please don't put another youth group through the awkward 'growing-out' phase. Either keep it long or short, but this is hard on all of us."