Welcome to our new home... well at least our new "virtual" home. Physically, we are back in Delaware, Ohio after spending a month in Ireland serving with the Corrymeela community. Check out our blog at hosinireland.blogspot.com for pictures and reflections. We experienced fellowship, fun, and the love of our brothers and sisters in Christ from all over the world! Thanks to everyone who left their mark on our lives. We will never be the same!


We come home with a new appreciation of "home". Not the house we live in (although, it's pretty dang cute), but the place where we are, right now. Rich Mullins often spoke of this concept in his lyrics. In "Sometimes By Step" he spoke of Abraham, "He was a stranger in this land, And I am that, no less than he". And, of Christ, in his song "You Did Not Have a Home" he said,
"Birds have nests, foxes have dens But the hope of the whole world rests On the shoulders of a homeless man You had the shoulders of a homeless man And the world can't stand what it can't own And it can't own You 'Cause You did not have a home"

Home ownership is a status of "arriving" in the U.S.. Being homeless is a curse. I witnessed that firsthand in May when we visited CCNV, the nations largest homeless shelter. But what does "home" mean? Well, to us, it is a calling. An investment, not in bricks and mortar, but in people and community. Jesus knew that and therefore wasn't concerned with the physicality of his home, but those with whom he lived, and dined, and played, and served. They defined his home. And we are redefining what home is for us.

Join us on the journey, be at home with us wherever we are.

God Bless
The Hos
'Cause You did not have a home