Matt's Birthday

Yesterday (November 20th) was my Birthday. Lindsay and I celebrated the day before; she made me my favorite foods like Swedish meatballs, twice-baked potatoes, and apple crisp for dessert. Yea, I know ya'll are jealous.

Also, this photo below is completely unrelated, but I thought it was funny. So I decided that it should be here. She was cutting onions. Enjoy.

More Snow!

Some beautiful views of the early winter here in gorges Ithaca, New York! Click here to see more in an online album. Enjoy! "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."

NE Staff Conference 08

This is a photo of all the Navigators Collegiate Staff in the NE region plus New York. We just spent Monday-Wednesday together in Plainfield, NH at our bi-annual staff conference. We always look forward to these events. We are all united in heart, passion, and vision. We share the same desires and struggles in campus ministry. We are greatly blessed by all these friends.

Thank you so much for tilling the soil of New England & New York hearts as you partner with us in prayer and financial support!

Halloween Thriftball 08 *BUSTED*

We had a Halloween Thriftball on October 31st with our Cornell Navigator group. It was a blast! We had a dance contest, prizes, donut on a string, and bobbing for apple contests, etc. And the cops broke up the party. (No worries, no laws were broken. But we accidentally bumped the preserved invertebrates glass case as we were bobbing for apples! It was actually quite hilarious when the alarm went off and wouldn't stop until the cops came. They thought it was amusing too, thankfully. Not their usual October 31st call at 11pm.)

This is Lindsay and one of the faithful freshmen girls from her bible study. She was the bride, and Lindsay was her bridesmaid.



In case you didn't know, that's me on the far right. The crazy guy in the middle is on our Navigators staff team here at Cornell as well.



I took the guy on the right from my freshmen bible study out to some thrift stores in downtown Ithaca right before the party. We basically ran out of time and grabbed whatever looked ridiculous. Thus, we ended up looking just that. That's Jeff on the left, he didn't end up getting a costume, so Doug (our campus director, below) loaned him some sweet garb.



Our fearless leader.



And of course, I had to throw one in of Lindsay and I. Yes, I do still wear those sunglasses. No, Lindsay doesn't like them.

A Gray Day on Campus

I posted a few photos here in our Cornell album. These were taken from the 7th floor of the Olin Library on campus. It's quite the view. This day was an interestingly gray, cloudy, and foggy day. Enjoy.

Fall Retreat Photo

Here is a couple photos of our Cornell students at our Fall Retreat. We were forced to take these in the rain. Click here to read a little more about our Fall Retreat in an earlier post.

We all had a wonderful time. It was especially restful for these academically driven students; even though it was only a 27 hour retreat, because they had to get back to study!

Winter is Upon Us

I had to scrape my car (Buster) this morning, for the first time this year. It was in the 20's last night. Indeed, winter is upon us.

Completely unrelated is the photo. It is a beautiful, gigantic, majestic tree on campus on Libe Slope. So I figured I had to post it while it's color is prime. Enjoy more Cornell campus photos here! Enjoy fall while it lasts.