ACTION Impact Missions (AIM) is a ministry that our family has been involved in for about a year. AIM choreographs songs using mime, drama, sign language, and other visual arts to communicate the gospel (to see some of our presentation videos, click here). There are about 15 local teams that present these songs around the nation.

AIM's national headquarters is here in Branson. Right now there are six people (hereinafter referred to as the "HQ Team") who are fulltime workers for the national ministry, plus their kids. They are:
- Jory and Tess Rolf - Founders of AIM and head of the national ministry. They have two sons, Banner (4) and Nation (2), and are expecting a third child in July.
- Jenny (or is it Jennie??) Stafford - AIM Missions Director. My friend and mentor. :)
- Jorge and Kristi Madrigal - Interns with AIM. They have three children: Nicky (5), Lily (3), and Gabriel (6 months).
- Andrew Vandever - Intern with AIM. Jo's favorite computer guru.

Jess and Jo are with the Branson AIM team as presenters. Andrew was on the Branson Younger team, but there is no Younger Team this session, so he is not currently involved with AIM. Normally we have two older teams and one younger team, but for the summer we have just one big older team. There are 17 people on our team right now. That number includes me, the only non-presenting student (a Roberts is the exception to every rule). I have been involved in AIM as a sound person/go-fer since September. In January I went on a 10-day mission trip to Louisiana with AIM, and later that month I joined the SALTeam, the local student leadership team.

Now that you know a bit about what AIM is, hopefully you'll have some idea of what I'm talking about when I refer to it in future posts. ;)