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And so it begins. Thank you one and all for all of your prayers, support, and encouragement. We're on our way to our first concert venue, and to sing for Nathan's brother's wedding. A special thanks goes to the folks at Hillsdale College; your support helps make this possible. Larry, Mike, Rich, you guys are great. Thank you. 

As is only right and proper, we began this journey from church. The Word of God has kept us alive in the true faith through college. The community he gave to us has helped us to grow. Everything good I learned about at school culminates in the Word and the Sacrament found at church: God sustains us by His grace. History, literature, political science, the liberal arts, natural science, all these things point to God as the creator and author of all good things. Most problems seem to stem from people forgetting their place in His creation, their place with respect to Him. We begin and end with Him. 

We packed quickly, said goodbye to all our friends on Saturday night, and left from church Sunday morning. The community we've been blessed with at Hillsdale, and at Zion Lutheran in Marshall has been an important part of our college education: teaching us how people live what they believe in the face of a contrary, distracted world. We are meant to live in good communities like these, connected to one another and vivified by Christ. Partings like this sting bittersweet; I will miss this place, but it is time for many of us to go. We have another calling now. 

For this summer, I want to see how God is working across our land. If St. Paul wrote  a letter to the people of God in America, what would he say? I want to see what it's like to be a servant of Christ in Minnesota, South Carolina, Texas, Colorado, California, Louisiana, or Maine. We're going to all of those places, but I bet the Word got there first. 

-Keaton
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