CURRENT MISSION

Serving Christ through music and hospitality

ABOUT ME

Hi, we're the Powells!

Arron is a self-employed Suzuki violin teacher, composer/arranger/orchestrator/transcriber, tenor, violist and daddy. Abby is a full-time mommy and part time horn player and teacher. Isaac is our sweet, toddling ball of energy. He was born in October 2011 and has made our lives a great deal of fun.

We are both active church musicians. In addition to our musical interests and activities, we are foodies. Our favorite thing to do together is cook. We've got adventurous palates and love trying new things. Some people would call us "crunchy." We are a breastfeeding, cloth diapering, baby wearing, real-food, frugal, gentle discipline, (eventually) home-schooling family. We like doing things as naturally as possible. We live simply and well and would never trade the time we are blessed to spend together as a family for a more convenient life.

If you'd like to see more references, Abby was active on CouchSurfing before Arron came along: http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/abbykat

PHILOSOPHY

Love is a verb.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hopefully lots of hosting, and surfing when we have time and money.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Arron is newer to CouchSurfing.

Abby, on the other hand:
1. Stayed with Luis and Marc in Düsseldorf
2. Stayed with Hagen in Kiel
3. Hosted Caitlin and Heather from Portland, OR
4. Hosted Amanda and Charles from Jackson, MS (both have since come back to surf my couch again)
5. Hosted Frank from Belgium
6. Hosted Liz from Eau Claire, WI
7. Hosted Peter and Thomas from Germany
8. Met Tina for milkshakes in St.Louis, MO
9. Hosted Charlie from Pittsburgh, now nomad
10. Hosted Anton from Holland
11. Hosted Linda from Germany
12. Hosted Alex and Jonathan from Israel
13. Stayed with Tom in Queens,NYC
14. Stayed with Lesia in Staten Island,NYC
15. Walked around NYC with Regina from Germany
16. Walked around NYC with Mauro from Argentina
17. Hosted Kira and Jens from Denmark
18. Hosted Brett from Kentucky
19. Hosted Heidi from Atlanta
20. Hosted Martin from Munich

Interests

Music, children's literature, books, languages, building community where we are, teaching, learning, growing in faith and love,....

• books
• literature
• dining
• cooking
• knitting
• music
• violin
• surfing
• calligraphy
• teaching
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

We're both classical musicians, but we're not just symphony lovers. We like lots of other music, as long as the quality is good and the lyrics are, too.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Abby: One of the most amazing things I've ever done is visiting Schönau am Königssee and sharing a place with three generations before me.

Arron: One of the most amazing things I've done is visit the Pacific Ocean and the Grand Canyon with my wife :).

Teach, Learn, Share

We both have something to teach you about music. Abby can do calligraphy and some needlepoint, and Arron is a fount of random information who is quite decent at knitting.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, France, Germany, Honduras, Italy, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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