Oddwalk Ministries

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A Happy Day!

Today, our friends Brad and Joia Farmer met their newly adopted daughter in China. The little girl’s name is Ava Therese FuBin Farmer. The Oddwalk family has been following their adoption journey and are very happy that this day has finally arrived. Congratulations to the (newly expanded) Farmer family! The Farmers, along with Gene Monterastelli,…

70/30 – Week 1

Well…it turns out that I’m not a strong-willed as I thought I was. Weight: While it’s true that I cut back a lot on what I ate this week, there wasn’t a marked improvement. I am reminded that it’s important I change WHAT I eat as well. I also didn’t have a lot of time…

La Morita

From July 28 to August 5, Orin’s wife Erin took part in a young-adult mission trip sposored by the Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows and Oblate Youth Ministry to La Morita, near Tijuana, Mexico (near San Diego, CA). The Oblates of Mary Immaculate have a health clinic there. The group spent most of…

70/30

On Saturday, Steve Allgeyer came to Jefferson City to provide training for the core team that takes care of our tri-parish Lifeteen Program. Steve works for Lifeteen nationally, and did an excellent job. Click here to learn more about Lifeteen. In addition to providing good tools and resources for our ministry, Steve talked with us…

Mmm, boogers.

So. Guess which city’s residents google more often the word “booger” than any other city’s in the world? Orin’s place of residence, St. Louis. Makes me proud. – Orin PS – There’s also a Norwegian soccer team whose name is similar to a human-gaseous English word. St. Louis is #2 for that one, behind Oslo.…

Oddwalk: NOW WITH SOUL!

Last Night, Oddwalk finished the recording end of our new CD (due out this fall). We invited Maggie Ramsay in to lay down some sax on a song called “Let Us Go Rejoicing”. Maggie is the wife of Shannon’s brother-in-law, Chris. She did an excellent job. We are VERY excited about the new CD and…