Back in 2009 we wrote one of our first “Somethin’ Honest, Somethin’ True” blog posts (you can read it here). Life has changed A LOT since then, but we still think it’d be appropriate to do another manifesto-type-blog-post about where we’re at in this journey called life… what thoughts are running through our heads, vocalizing the...
Unbelievable. We’re completely shocked and amazed by the compassion and generosity of YOU ALL. Seriously, blown away. We had friends and family contributing from AROUND the globe! From South Africa all the way to the Hawaiian Islands. Together we raised enough money to fund an ENTIRE water project through charity:water (giving over 250 people clean...
One of the things that Gary and I are SUPER passionate about is what we call “giving back”. What we mean by this is that we recognize how MUCH God has blessed us and in return we try to bless others, both financially and thru non-financial means (activities, lifestyle choices, etc…). We also are SUPER...
This is pretty much our life & business mantra: More info on this project can be found here at the Holstee Website (which is RAD by the way). Tell us you loved this as much as we did??? We feel inspired (even though our whole family is mostly down-n-out with a cold and we’re running...
We LOVE charity: water and LOVE this video they created. We’ve traveled all over the globe trying to learn about various non-profit organization, the needs that are present, and ways we can help… and if there’s one thing we’ve learned, it’s that water effects EVERYTHING and EVERYONE!!! There really isn’t a greater need for suffereing...
Gary and I are fairly obsessed with life having forward motion… of striving towards something and moving our life along a path towards a greater goal. We’re really good at getting things from point A to point B. And once we get to point B we’re always at a loss for what to do next....
One of our favorite organizations, UNIFEM, has launched a new campaign called Stop Rape Now. This campaign is striving to end rape in general, but is focusing on trying to end rape being used as a weapon of war. There are millions of women around the world that live with rape as a daily reality...
I’m still doing a lot of processing about all that I saw and experienced while on this last trip to Africa. The traveling part and the team I went with were both really great, but the trip as a whole was challenging in many ways (challenging to my “Christian worldview” and “consumeristic western perspective”). Even...
‘Bout to hop on another flight bound for the beautifully complex continent of Africa. This will be the third trip to Africa in less than five months… there’s just too many amazing projects going on to pass up another opportunity to document the stories of the people that we’ve been fortunate enough to meet throughout Africa (Ethiopia...
Courtney and I just returned from a very inspiring trip to South Africa. It was a media gathering/creating venture for a ngo called Themba International. Jeff Johnson is the founder and was kind enough to take us along as he returned to his “home away from home” to continue researching eco friendly ways to help...
Well, we made it safely to South Africa and back again. What a great trip! We have TONS of content to go through and edit for Themba International (the nonprofit organization that we traveled and worked with (photo/design/video) while in S.Africa – we’ll post more about that at a later date). What a stellar group...
We’re hoppin’ on a flight this evening that’s bound for NYC, then Johannesburg, and ultimately George, South Africa (just a few hours from Cape Town, the southern most tip of Africa). South Africa has a population of over 50 million, and has the second-highest number of HIV/Aids patients in the world. Around one in seven of...
Courtney has officially launched SeeJaneAdvocate.com – It’s a regularly-updated online resource that offers busy moms practical, affordable, quick and easy ways to impact the world. Courtney is very passionate about human rights issues (she’s been studying about it on a daily basis for the last couple years), and she is truly amazing at coming up with simple...
Although Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in Africa, its people are beautiful, trustworthy and full of hope. They take an enormous amount of pride in their country, and have good reason to do so (it is Africa’s oldest independent country… and not to mention, breathtakingly beautiful). When walking through the city streets of...
Gary and I leave today for Ethiopia. We are going to help a wonderful non-profit over there called AGAR (which is the Ethiopian word for “helper”) that does incredible work with the segments of society who cannot care for themselves. They do a lot of work with the elderly and just recently obtained a grant...
It’s been a while since we’ve talked about emote360 on this blog… for those of you that don’t know, we’re co-founders and help run a nonprofit media group called emote360. It’s about 3 years old now and exists to help other nonprofit organizations tell their story through multimedia (by utilizing the latest in video, photography, audio engineering, graphic...
Had a spare second and whipped up this little slideshow (below) that documents emote360′s documentary trip to India. I was fortunate enough to be the photographer on this trip (we were there this last January). Since then, emote360 has sent a media team to Rwanda, Burundi and Congo (visit the emote360 blog to see updates). We’ve also been...
