Mars Hill and Rob Bell

 One of the places that we went to on our road trip was the Grand Rapids, Michigan to Mars Hill. Mars Hill is the church that Rob Bell is the pastor of. Leigh has been listening to Mars Hill podcasts for many years and it has been one of her dreams to get to go to a service there. I'm excited to say that we accomplished that dream. She was so excited and I was really happy to get to see her that happy! 
There is also a Mennonite connection- Shane Hipps is a new pastor there and he grew up Mennonite and spoke at the convention last month. Unfortunately we did not get to speak to him...
We got there extra early. I was having trouble finding a seat...

After the sermon we went up to talk to Rob Bell. Leigh was able to tell him about the project "Love Wins" that she was doing in Bradford as a reflection of his book. He said that he was inspired!