by scott on October 28, 2009
In my more honest moments, I realize that I have a great job and an awesome wife and family, and I really have no idea how I ever hooked that up. But most of the time, when I’m not being that self-aware, I make it through the day/week/month feeling like I’ve got it pretty well [...]
by scott on October 18, 2009
We have now done 4 of the 5 gigs on the Korean leg of our tour. We have one more to go on Tuesday, then we fly home Wednesday. We’ve played for two large churches and two universities, and had amazing responses at all of them. Our average audience has been 350-400, which is slightly [...]
by scott on October 13, 2009
Just finished meeting with the team from UNTIL, the ministry here in Mongolia who hosted our tour. Great people, great experiences. And while our week of gigs in South Korea awaits, it’s bittersweet to leave. We’ve seen some great stuff happen here, so here’s the recap. We and UNTIL parntered with several other ministries while [...]
by scott on October 9, 2009
We’ve been in Mongolia for over a week now. We’ve been to a remote prison. We’ve played 6 concerts. We’ve done training classes on how we do our outreaches. We’ve learned how to negotiate in the market, gotten stuck in an elevator for half an hour, and found a favorite restaurant where we can eat [...]
by scott on October 8, 2009
So we leave UlaanBaatar (the accents are on the ‘aa’ syllables) and head out on a 3.5 hour drive to the village of Dzuunharaa, where there is a prison where we’re playing. 45 minutes of the drive was on a dirt road through the steppe that I can only compare to the Santa Fe Trail. [...]
by scott on October 2, 2009
So we get on the ground here in UlaanBaatar (the ‘aa’ syllables get the accent), we meet with the team that has brought us in for concerts, have a briefing meeting, and head out to dinner.