"Eat Well. Live Well. Be Well." This motto is that of Growing Places Indy, the site Bear Breaks Indy served with today. As a trip leader, and previous Indy participant, it was fun to come back to a place I've served at before and see the changes made and gain more out of the experience than I did initially. Growing Places Indy is a non-profit urban garden that specializes in … [Read more...] about Eat Well. Live Well. Be Well.
After a late night exploring Chicago, our Bear Breaks gang met for breakfast and to pack lunch at 7am. After so much time spent on our own concerns, it was time to remember why we came. Our first service event was at New Life's Dream Center. New Life is a church that helps with mostly victims of sex trafficking, but also men seeking a new start and children seeking their … [Read more...] about Sex Trafficking: New Life Dream Center in Chicago
Asheville, North Carolina is well-known for its progressive stance on sustainability and push to address environmental concerns. This trip will focus on an often overlooked aspect of the city: the health and wellness of people living in poverty. Almost one fifth of people in Asheville are living below the poverty line. This trip will explore issues such as food insecurity, … [Read more...] about Health, Wellness, and What it means to the People in Asheville, NC
A reflection of sorts: In the days since the trip, people have asked me so many times how the trip was, but I have not been able to accurately capture the experience in words. I try to show a picture, and since it is worth a thousand words, it is better, but it still doesn’t do any justice to the experience. The beauty was uncapturable, indescribable, and if you’ve never … [Read more...] about One Gnarly Trip
Written 1-11-17 Fear is something we experience all the time for the silliest reasons. The list of phobias is too long to imagine. Fear is meant to protect us, it’s the body’s way of keeping us from playing with tigers, jumping off cliffs, or some other stupid thing, but the root of it is based in realizing man’s inferiority. We can’t play with tigers because they would maul … [Read more...] about Pura Vida!