Sorry it has been so long since my last post. Life has been pretty crazy and my phone mysteriously vanished, so be praying that I can get another one soon… We did Cornerstone Christian festival in Illinois and Lifest in Wisconsin last week. Tommorow we set up for Hills Alive in South Dakota. We have had a little bit of free time between our last and next festival, and we have been spending the whole time climbing pretty much. We just climbed Devils Tower in Wyoming all day yesterday for one and climbed behind Mt Rushmore all day prior.

However, I need to make followup calls regarding some letters I sent out that I should have done a while ago (but couldn’t due to lack of signal and time between festivals), and now that I finally have a little time, my phone have vanished and i don’t want to make the calls from another phone. So for all of you that have recieved a letter in the mail, hopfully I will be able to call you soon.

I almost switched to Verizon from AT&T because they have better coverage, however, everyone I will be working with out in Los Angeles and all my friends and family back home have AT&T, so I think I am going to stick with them. I don’t want to renew my phone contract for another two years however, so I am just going to buy a phone online, but the shipping from what I have been looking at makes it look like I wont get the phone for a while, which really sets me back a lot, mentioning that I still have a huge monthly budget to raise. So pray that I am able to get a phone fast, and favor as I follow up with everyone.

Additionally, I should be finished with my first newsletter soon (it may just be a summation of these blog posts), so if your on my email mailing list, be looking for that soon.

On another note, I just ordered 5,000 glow bracelets that I hope to sell before the tour is over, because the money used for selling those will go towards a reliable car for me to drive out to Los Angeles. I have the initial moving budget raised (praise God). Now I just need to raise enough for a car and get the monthly budget raised. So I encourage everyone to pray about filling out a faith promise agreement. Thank you everyone for reading this and be blessed.

A friend of mine has been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, 5% chance of survival. Her name is Cathy Kennedy and is a fellow vendor who travels to Christian festivals selling buttons. I would like to urge everyone who reads this to pray for her complete healing. Our God is a God who heals. By his stripes, we have been healed according to Isaiah 53:5 and 1 Peter 2:24. I am standing on the Word of God and believing she will make a complete recovery and I pray that everyone else does the same.

For those of you who didn’t already know this, I figured I would post it, thought I thought it was implied. I am currently traveling the country working for a Christian Apparel Business, raising a prayer base and a support base while I am doing such.

Additionally, I am selling glow bracelets to help cover the moving and initial expenses out in Los Angeles (and hopefully keep me afloat for a little bit if I don’t have a complete monthly budget raised yet).Right now I am in Bushnell Illinois at Cornerstone Christian Music festival. The festival falls over the 4^th of July, so I think that will be beneficial for bracelet sales. Next week I head to Wisconsin for Lifefest, and then the summer tour will be considered
about half over.

I have no direct expenses associated with working for this Christian apparel business (Food, lodging, travel, and festival expenses are covered with the position), so this summer position conveniently compliments my efforts out in LA.

My travel itinerary consists of:

Kentucky – Ichthus (Music Festival)
Ohio – Alive (Music Festival)
Pennsylvania – Creation East (Music Festival)
Illinois – Cornerstone (Music Festival)
Wisconsin – Lifefest (Music Festival)
South Dakota – Hills Alive (Music Festival)
Washington – Creation West  (Music Festival)
California -  Spirit West Cost (Music Festival)
Wyoming – Dangerous Identity Expedition (outdoor discipleship program)
South Dakota – Lifelite (Music Festival)

For those of you unfamiliar with the Creation festival, it is the largest Christian music festival in the world located near Mount Union, Pennsylvania. This year it has approximately 72,000 people and has had over 80,000 people in the past (that’s a lot of people, larger than a small city). The success of this festival has resulted in another festival of the sort located at the Columbia River Gorge in Washington. Because I was able to sell bracelets at Creation East, they are going to allow me to sell them at Creation West. These are the two largest festivals of the summer, attendance wise, might I add. So the ability to sell bracelets at these festivals is a total answer to prayer. I have been praying for the ability to sell bracelets at every festival this year, and so far, I have been able to do that, and am praying to continue to receive favor in doing this. Praise God for this.

Sorry for the slow update, but I have not had internet for like a week. I just got done with Creation Christian Music Festival, located in Pennsylvania.

Praise God for favor, I was able to get glow bracelet selling rights here, where the festival historically holds exclusives to sell the bracelets. Because of this, I also got approval to sell bracelets at the Creation Music Festival in Washington later this summer. The ability to sell glow bracelets, and better yet, in the crowd, has substantially helped me in my ability to afford the initial moving expense out to Los Angeles, not to mention help provide me with money to buy a better car when the summer is up. I was able to take home almost 2K after paying the festival, and I did not even sell bracelets the first night. When I head out to Washington, I will be able to sell them every night. Anyways, I am about to loose internet, so I will report another update later this week.

For all of those who bought bracelets at this festival, I once again want to say thank you. The weather has been a little crazy, but since we have started praying and rebuking bad weather, the weather really cleared up over the festival so far. After this festival, I head to Pennsylvania for Creation, the largest Christian music festival in the world.

I am on my way to raising the initial amount to move out to Los Angeles. As many of you know, I am currently on tour with a Christian apparel business and just got done doing a festival in Kentucky known as Ichthus. For all of you who bought a glow bracelet, thank you, your help is much apprecieted. I was able to sell with the help of kids $249 on the last night in four hours, bringing in over 400 dollars in bracelet sales for the entire festival. Seeing as I am rasing 5k initially, its a good start.

However, I really need work on my monthly support, so I would really like everyone to take a serious consideration in supporting me monthly, whether 10, 20, 50 dollars a month, whatever it may be, everything helps.

I first off want to thank all of those who have chosen to invest in me and support me so far, everything helps. I have a long way to go in monthly support.

Right now, I am in the process of selling my small vending route and my car, so I will have enough money to purchase a reliable car to take out to Los Angeles. I will be driving a lot (and possibly from Los Angeles to Missouri at times), so I need to have something reliable that wont break down in the desert, so please pray that God provides this quickly.

I graduated Missouri State a few weeks ago, and I leave for the summer coming up around June 10th to go on tour with a Christian apparel business before I move out to Los Angeles. This will allow me to share the vision at Christian festivals across the country and provide me money to help with the move in September.

• Following God wholeheartedly and effectively spreading the love and message of Jesus Christ. The most important thing in my life is to follow my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and to share with people the way He has transformed my life and will transform theirs if they will let Him.
• Reaching out to build meaningful relationships with the people I come in contact with. I love to constantly be around people, helping them grow in Christ as well as learn from those who have helped pave a path ahead of me. I want to be able to pour into others as others have poured into me.
• Eventually be positioned through successful business ventures to play a substantial part in the funding of ministries and missionaries worldwide. I feel through serving others and going through the support raising process, it will more effectively enable me to fund the gospel when I become successful in business.