Before and after part one

Before shot (before I visited the Paste Magazine Website)

Tonight our house is actually a tent. Three quarters of the roof is gone. The attic insulation is gone. A blue tarp is rustling in the cool (15 degree wind chill!) breeze. But before we bring you up to date on the first part of the building project. We wanted to take you back to why we are going for this project. Here are a couple of before and after thoughts at the heart of why we are expanding.

Before we moved to our current house. We lived in a neighborhood that was roughtly equidistant to the main colleges of Atlanta. We were about 25 minutes South of Kennesaw State University and 25 minutes North of Georgia Tech. Before Samantha, our first daughter, arrived this worked fine.

After we moved to Midtown, just one block from Georgia Tech, we literally had students as our nearest neighbors. Even with the odd hours required to do campus ministry, I can spend quality time with family. It is not rocket-science to learn that missionaries will be better positioned to live among the people they are sent to serve. Before we moved here we did not really realize how much more fun and effective the ministry would be. After the move, we realized the great potential of having such a close proximity.

The more Emily and I talked about the possibility of expanding our home, the more we realized that it was about the future of our ministry. We need room to do what we believe God moved us from Chamblee to one block from the Georgia Tech campus to do, share the gospel and our lives with students.

After Shot: Trent has been Obamiconned!