we are on tour now.  Just got done with Ichthus in Kentucky.  I posted some pictures that a great friend Colin gave us from our show at the fest in the album section.  We are now at our own fest (PAPA) building the stage, setting everything up with all the other communities.  Registration reached 1000 (our capacity this year) over a month ago so unfortunately if you didn't register you can't camp on the grounds.  I think you can still come during the day though.  Go to papafestival.org for info on that.  Then we begin the "Jesus for President" book tour and i am pretty excited about it.  Count Tabu and i play about 12 or 15 short songs during the presentation by Shane and Chris.  I posted one example on the profile page.  It is our version of the "Magnificat" which is the song Mary sang when she was told she was pregnant with Jesus.  We updated the tour schedule with exact locations and times and other details.  Come say hi...but don't make fun of the bus! (we will be repainting it as soon as the JFP tour is over)

We are hoping to earn enough from tour to pay for travel expenses for me and Count Tabu to make it to Israel and Palestine.   Every year we like to try and spend some time learning from a refugee population.  In the past we have spent time with bedouins in Iraq, homeless youth in Philadelphia, and kurdish villagers in southeastern Turkey.
In Jerusalem we hope to spend a week at the "World Christian Gathering on Indigenous Peoples"
Then we hope to spend the rest of our time at the Deisha refugee camp on the outskirts of Bethlehem.
We are still trying to discern if we should go and a big factor in that discernment is if we can afford it financially.  Right now we don't think we will earn enough from tour to go.  Also we will play some small shows and street performances there...but we don't expect to earn much or even charge at all in the first place.   So if some of you out there are loaded and think very strongly that this is a trip we should do then i guess give us a bunch of money!  Otherwise we won't be going. 
Not going to Israel and Palestine in the next few months might be just fine...but we are drawn to it at the moment...and the opportunity is there...and we think God would like us there...but we aren't sure...so we thought including you all in the discernment process would be a good idea.
okay back to work....see you soon
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