2019 in Cities

01 - Atlantic City, NJ, USA
02 - New York, NY, USA
03 - Fairfield, CT, USA
04 - Laugarvatn, Iceland
05 - Skógafoss, Iceland
06 - Jekyll Island, GA, USA
07 - New York City, NY, USA
08 - Venice, Italy
09 - Pula, Croatia
10 - Zadar, Croatia
11 - Šibenik, Croatia
12 - Trogir, Croatia
13 - Dubrovnik, Croatia
14 - Ancient Corinth, Greece
15 - Spetses, Greece
16 - Athens, Greece
17 - Capetown, South Africa
18 - Touws River, South Africa
19 - Nanticoke, Maryland, USA
20 - Cambridge, MD, USA
21 - Atlanta, GA, USA
22 - Atlanta, GA, USA
23 - Punaluu, HI, USA
24 - Waikiki, HI, USA
25 - Oakland, CA, USA
26 - Lexington, NC, USA
27 - Gore, VA, USA
28 - San Jose, CA, USA
29 - San Rafael, CA, USA

Standing goal - get outside the US at least once a year. Fantastic travel this year, which included 23 flights and around 54K airmiles. More than ever, travel was framed this year around 'pilgrimage.' Let me know if you are interested in a little travel hacking guide I wrote.

2019 in Books

1 - Double Blessing, Mark Batterson
2 - Microchurches, Brian Sanders
3 - Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell **
4 - Reframation, Alan Hirsch
5 - Underground Church, Brian Sanders **
6 - Kingdom Journeys, Seth Barnes [gift from World Race launch]
7 - People to be Loved, Preston Sprinkle ** [via Jon Tyson, Church of the City NYC podcast]
8 - Securing the Oracle Database
9 - Columbine, Dave Cullen [gift from Ben Arment]
10 - What You Do is Who You Are, Ben Horowitz ##
11 - Faith for Exiles, David Kinnaman
12 - Disappearing Church, Mark Sayers
13 - Winners Take All, Anand Giridharada ^^ [via Kt]
14 - CompTIA Security+
15 - Love into Light, Peter Hubbard ^^
16 - Leading a Church in a Time of Sexual Questioning, Bruce Miller ## [via Greg St Cyr]
17 - Reboot, Jerry Colonna ^^

** - Best reads of the year
## - Need to get back to because it is good
^^ - Didn't finish. Sometimes, it just isn't the right time for you to read it.

22

Dear Kt,

From the time you were little, one of our family mantras has been 'you are blessed to be a blessing.' Even typing this now, it is as much of a reminder to me as it is to you, that our lives are meant to be poured out for the service of others since we have been given so much privilege.

I think it's a good reminder as you get ready for another round of big life changes: graduation in May, leaving good friends from school who will return to far flung home countries, and navigating the next season of life as a university graduate - if you move home, I may charge you rent. But we hope that mantra continues to inform your intention and direction. We need the reminder too.

Immensely proud of you,
Love,
DAD

[Photo by Jakob, somewhere outside Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Nov 2019]

Visited Axis Church to hear @trevinhoekzema guest preach this morning.

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So many seats. @southwestair

Flight #22 in 2019. Because modern air travel is still a miracle to me.

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