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Wrestling with God

After returning home from the retreat, my roomate wanted to know if I was for sure going, and replied with "Yeah!" She was concerned because she knew that I had such a heart for the Muslim world and believed my gift was evangelism and was worried I wasn't making the right decision. Well at first I was honestly upset, because I knew she was just trying to help me through this huge decision and quite frankly knew she was right.

For about a week, I just prayed and prayed- was this God's wi… Continue

Added by Christine Anderson on February 8, 2010 at 11:50am — No Comments

applying and the next steps

After returning home, I decided to apply, and less than an hour later I received an email that they received my application and that they would like to have a phone interview the following Monday.

While talking with Josh, I felt so comfortable and very encouraged- for it was extremely laid back conversation and made me feel at ease. He said, they would contact me and let me know by the end of the week.

That weekend, I was heading up to Wisconsin for a mission retreat with 20 ot… Continue

Added by Christine Anderson on February 8, 2010 at 11:42am — No Comments

Meeting with Venture at URBANA

Upon arriving URBANA, I had some what of a shock, I was overwhelmed for there was thousands of college students, hundred and hundreds of different mission organizations and hundreds of seminars to choose. However, it was here were God continued to open my eyes, transform my heart, break my heart for the lost and broken and continued to convict me of missions.

I remember searching for Ventures booth and just could not find it, until one day I was talking to my friend, Tim about Venture… Continue

Added by Christine Anderson on February 8, 2010 at 11:38am — No Comments

First Interaction with Venture

As some of you might know, I went to URBANA '09 this winter break- before going I received numerous emails from a variety of mission organizations about their vision and what they do, the only one I opened was Venture Expeditions- going through the website, I thought this is too good to be true. For venture believes in bringing the healing and love of Jesus to the lost and broken and putting it together with adventure- both of which are a huge part of my life!

I knew when going to URBAN… Continue

Added by Christine Anderson on February 8, 2010 at 11:29am — No Comments

Christmas Eve

It is Christmas eve. I think about memories. When Christmas was so exciting as kid. Perhaps, it is still exciting in some ways... but now I feel more aware... of things I don't like about Christmas. My parents always made it a point when we were kids not to put too much emphasis on the materialism of Christmas. When friends at school talked about all their many presents I would wish I had gotten more... Now I so appreciate this about my family. I appreciate that this year I make homemade humm… Continue

Added by Alicia Kelly (Kelali) on December 24, 2009 at 10:43pm — No Comments

what's in a name? & thoughts on garbage dumps in our soul

I am curious, does anybody still believe that our Heavenly Father would change a name? Back in the day, Saul's name was changed to Paul, Jacob to Israel, Abram to Abraham. I ask because I think my name was kind of creatively changed...interesting story, please read on.. Several years ago I was writing a speech for college graduation. In midst of writing the speech, I got a little distracted and I had a discovery... I started messing with the letters of my name. Randomly I put the first 3 of m… Continue

Added by Alicia Kelly (Kelali) on December 16, 2009 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Change

It is amazing how life always changes, things that seem so easy before are now harder, at which was hard is now easy. between college and trying to maintain this wonderful "social life" i have found that the only one i need to truly care about and impress is God. Not saying that others are not important, but i do find that we as Christians only associate with other Christians. This would make sense if the whole world believed that Christ died on the cross of our sins, but since it is not the rea… Continue

Added by Ebony Simone Beck on December 15, 2009 at 3:30pm — No Comments

The lazy bloger: Fall Mountaineering.

As the title states, I'm not one to write much - but - bellow you will find photos from Mt. Rainier, Mt. Baker, an epic in RMNP, and Devil's Castle. Mt Rainier

A very nice trail along the approach to Camp Muir

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Added by Bryan Hendrick on October 26, 2009 at 6:01pm — No Comments

Isaiah 58:5-8

Hey everyone! We've been spending a lot of time praying in the office and really feel like God is putting these verses on our hearts for the upcoming year! check it out, seek the LORD, and hit us up with some feedback! Peace. Benefit the World, Discover the Soul! Continue

Added by Josh Iniguez on September 20, 2009 at 8:55pm — No Comments

2010 Here we come!

Hey Everyone! I just want to give a quick update from the Venture Expeditions office... We are on track to release our official 2010 Campaign on October 22nd at the first annual Venture Expeditions Partner Dinner!!! All the information about this event is available online. Venture Expeditions Partner Dinner We are currently getting all of our ducks in a row so that we can announce everything from our upcoming trips, NEW CAMPAIGN, opportunities… Continue

Added by Josh Iniguez on September 1, 2009 at 1:48pm — No Comments

Mid Summer Review!

It is times for us to post a mid summer review for all of our faithful peeps! God is Amazing! I know its a given, but it is overwhelmingly true! This year has been such a blessing for the Venture Team that we can't do anything by praise Him for His faithfulness and His provision. Here is a quick breakdown of the Current Venture Expeditions: -Ride:Well Tour 2009- At this moment, Venture's Ride:Well Tour 09 Team is currently serving for a day in Tyler, TX. The Team has already logged over 1,70… Continue

Added by Josh Iniguez on July 14, 2009 at 11:49am — No Comments

2008-2009 Backcountry Ski Touring / Ski Mountaineering Photos thus far....

Pfifferhorn Summit Attempt via East Ridge

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Added by Bryan Hendrick on February 24, 2009 at 1:40pm — 2 Comments

Venture Thus Far

Hi guys, I want to introduce myself as Venture's new intern. As a journo major on work assignment for a 200-hour internship, I'm handling some of the outgoing online and print communications for Venture. I do other stuff I'll mention later. I first heard of Venture as a sophomore at North Central University. That was when four crazy students decided to ride across the United States to raise money for AIDS relief in Africa. It was a cause everyone readily rallied around, and it's still going to… Continue

Added by Andy on February 3, 2009 at 4:38pm — 2 Comments

Singapore

We made it to Singapore at 3 am after a 13 hour flight to Tokyo and a delayed 8 hour flight… Continue

Added by Venture Expeditions on December 5, 2008 at 6:30am — No Comments

Wow...I'll say it again...wow

I wanted to add a quick blog post and trip summary.... TEAM Our cycling team consisted of Jimmy, Stephanie, Kelly & Kris. TRIP We started riding pretty soon after I landed in Dublin...June 23 (I was a day late b/c I missed my flight to London due to bad weather in Nashville). We rode 20 miles the first day to just outside of Bray, Ireland. We camped out in some people's yard and were tired after putting our bikes together and getting a bit of a late start. We got rained on off and on all a… Continue

Added by Sarah Bubb on July 6, 2008 at 6:44am — No Comments

...and now in Jinja, Uganda...

Hey Folks, It has been a little while since I have had a chance to post so here is the recap leading up to this moment. Bear with me since occurances will likely be mashed up into one lump... Our group was able to visit the IEC Oprhanage for a second time. It was tough for us to have to leave them. They were very sweet kids and we bonded so well with them. We were also able to go to Cradle of love for a second time as well which was a treat. Funny thing, while we were there Ryan and I were wa… Continue

Added by George on July 3, 2008 at 4:20am — No Comments

...on our way out of town...

Friends, Today is Saturday and here is the recap of the week; Sunday: Our team joined with the people here at IEC (International Evangelism Center) in Sakila, Tanzania for church and relaxed for the day. Monday: We went to the IEC Orphanage to visit with the children. The orphans were between the ages of 4 and 8, and many of them are orphaned due to AIDS. Tuesday: We went to WAMATU which is an AIDS awareness/support system near Arusha. There we were able to see some of the programs that are… Continue

Added by George on June 28, 2008 at 1:17am — No Comments

...in arusha today...

ok, don't expect any capitalization, or correct grammer, or anything correct in this post because i am at an internet cafe in the middle of arusha tanzania and the connection is awfuly slow. not to mention that there is only four minutes until my session times out. so, today we visited the orphanage and it was wonderful! the kids were very excited to see us. we brought them some rice, flour, fruit, candy, and footballs (soccer balls). tommorrow we will be heading to an aids center near arusha,… Continue

Added by George on June 23, 2008 at 9:01am — No Comments

...in Sakila now...

Hello everyone! Or maybe I should say Jambo rafiki! I hope that you all are doing well. Our team arrived in Sakila, Tanzania yesterday and we are getting some well deserved rest. We had quite a time traveling from all over the US. Minneapolis, Seattle, Austin, and New York City is where we all came from, and luckily we only lost one bag in transit. Somehow we were able to get it literally as we were entering the park gate to start our climb. The climb on Mt. Kilimanjaro was a success with all… Continue

Added by George on June 22, 2008 at 8:08am — 1 Comment

...and we're off.

Friends and Family, Our team’s departure is fast approaching. To be very honest up until this point I have not had a lot of time to think about the trip, but the time has come and the bags must be packed. Those of us who are located in the MPLS region will be departing today at 3:15pm and will touch down in Nairobi around 7:00pm on Friday. From there we will spend a night at the Nairobi International Youth Hostel and leave early the next morning for Kilimanjaro. On the 15th we will start our cl… Continue

Added by George on June 12, 2008 at 9:58am — No Comments

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