Mark Scandrette

Today I started growing out facial hair again for that indomitable and loveable preacher A.L. Withee, who will be spreading revival wild fire with Big Brother Duke and The professor in Pittsburgh in a few weeks at the National Youth Worker’s Convention. This was my favorite photo of the Preacher from the Church Basement Roadshow this summer, when he was giving a whoop and a push and all he’s got.

Tomorrow afternoon I will be flying to Birmingham to attend my 20 year high school reunion in Moundville. My old buddy Moose will be picking me up at the airport and I will be staying with them in their trailer down the road from the house where I lived in high school.

As you probably know, I’m not really from Alabama, but it is an interesting wrinkle in my life story.

The other reason for being in Alabama will be speaking with various groups in Birmingham including the Birmingham Emergent Cohort, Disciples Fellowship, and folks from Journey community at Dawson Family of Faith. I will be telling stories speaking about my book SOUL GRAFFITI.

Last night we launched a city-wide propaganda campaign to raise awareness about human trafficking. Among other things, we distributed 4,000 coffee cup holders to cafe’s with the logo “END MODERN DAY SLAVERY” and a web address for a site that Adam and Tom put up this week. You can view the site here. Our family had a great time walking around the neighborhood chatting with cafe managers– and we distributed 1,000 cupholders in about an hour.

Bryan Allain interviews me on his faith and sports website here. I hope sports fans aren’t offended.

But it’s pretty funny for the 10 of us. Thanks to Paul Soupiset.