This weekend officially ends my summer activities and commitments. And I go out with a great celebration! Three good friends of mine have gotten married in the last two weeks. Two of them, Nick Poole and Shane Vicry were former interns with Vision 2 Hear and the third, which I actually couldn’t attend 😦 was for former Board Member of Vision 2 Hear, Tony Lawson.

So as I wrap up the summer, here are a few things I learned from weddings this summer.

Family is number one priority.

There are very few things that bring people together anymore but thankfully we still have weddings! People travel from far and wide to be part of weddings and to celebrate with their loved ones as they begin this epic journey called marriage. Even though I am not “blood-related” (nor were many others), I logged a lot of miles (as did several others)…

A couple weeks ago, the German team arrived but only stayed two nights before heading off to Alabama for a week long summer camp with a partner church in Montgomery. They arrived back in Atlanta on Sunday and since then we have had a whirlwind schedule! But here’s a little history about the team.

The team of 13 from Siegburg, Germany consists of several that have traveled to the USA before on a mission trip. They are being lead by Ralf Dohring who served as an intern in the USA several years ago. This team has a great connection with some churches in the USA, having started a partnership with a church in Texas which helps them sponsor a baseball camp each year. This year’s camp which just wrapped before they got here had 100 participants. What’s really cool about this is that a former intern of V2H, Nick Poole, was…