Thanks for allowing us into your home, office, and school. This web site is undergoing some significant changes since Grand Quest Wisconsin began unofficially in 2004. We have accumulated hundreds of pages that will; get you connected to your heart, your community, and Wisconsin. We may make you laugh, ponder and reflect, perhaps even cry. GrandQuest.org, by design, is a community resource. We'll also create an online community which will bring people together to Learn, Relate, and Discover; i.e. chat, forum, weblog, and classified ads. And a community calendar that lets you know what's happening in Wisconsin so you can get out and have some fun—enjoy and celebrate life!

Our goal is to interact with you on some level. Both online and in the streets of Wisconsin. Naturally, we created the site to reach people with information about our programs, services, events, and activities with hopes to meet people so we could be a part of their life, and they a part of our life. There is only so much we can do with the time we have and the limitations we live with. We know there is a great many people to meet, relationships to build & strengthen, places to go, and things needed that you may want to know more about. We're here for you!

COMMUNITY CALENDAR:
The community calendar is a free state wide service which we take great pride in. We are honored to provide event information in a Fun, Relevant, and Unusual Way. Many of us, including the founder, are visual people. We need something to catch our eye. Grand Quest Wisconsin wants to be unique and different in many aspects! Our calendar incorporates an occasional image to grab the viewers attention, also making it FUN to look at! If the monthly page gets to large we will break it down by week. By being uniquely different, we hope it may help event promoters, Wisconsin residents, as well as out-of-state tourists, make the decision to get involved in Wisconsin—A grand quest destination!

The main content index is a source to all the pages on our site, broken down to mirror our main directories. Often referred to as a site map. The TITLE of the index is the main page (be sure to visit it). Sub titles are indexes which fall in that category. Many sites point you to a page from an index, only to remove it making room for something else. We have created a way for you to go to the content directory and find all the files that were ever used on that index.

This may be confusing. To provide an example, we have a index called "Wellness." The files used for that directory can be found on the index page called grandquest.org/content/wellness/.

Affiliate partners should note Grand Quest Wisconsin enters into agreements to provide our visitors, what we believe to be, valuable resources and content.

Our promise to our valued visitors is to never point them to a Web site which:

• doesn't provide valuable content FREE
• may infect a computer system with viruses, ad-ware, spy-ware
• launch more than 1 pop-up or pop-under window for the purpose of intrusive marketing on entry, page visits, and exit combined
• do not have a contact page with a phone number and business location
• look suspicious in nature
• have forms requiring confidential information that are not on an encrypted page

We'll only link to sites that meet our expectations & requirements.

• Lenders not meeting the requirements in our promise above
• Multi-level Marketing
• Drugs for losing weight or to enhance sexual desire or performance
• Compounds or Herbal Substances which are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Dating or Match Making Web sites, unless FREE to receive authentic communications without a paid subscription
• Offensive and otherwise distasteful content
• Product or service which may lead to additive behaviors.
• Mislead others
• Operate or utilize a Web site or email link to Web sites that contain or promote any of these types of content: libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, violent, bigoted, hate-oriented, illegal, cracking, hacking or warez, or any illegal good or service, or link to a Web site(s) that do so
• Engage in spamming, indiscriminate advertising or unsolicited commercial email
• Break any trademark or copyright laws

The header image is not our logo, though a great deal of thought and effort went into what we wanted to portray in our image.

The two doves represent love in our relationships. It takes two to fall in love and stay in love. It also implies that to love, we must give unconditionally and be open to receive love from others to truly experience love in all its glory as God intends. When one chooses to forgive others, only then can emotion and feelings be on a heart level which leads to the fulfillment and contentment sought by so many people in our fasted paced, broken-hearted culture. Love is a gift, not an obligation.

The word's grand and quest represent two things. "Grand" is the way we should look at life—on a grand scale. It's large and impressive. We're only here for a short time. Therefore, we should make it all it can be—continually improving. Life itself is more than the material things we accumulate along life's journey. Life is building legacies with those we love, here and now, and loving with integrity and commitment. The word "Quest" represents the journey we're on—Life's an adventure. Most of us are looking for, in search of...something, consciously and subconsciously. An achievement, recognition, job, wife, husband, better relationships—Something!

The background represents the reality of life and a purpose. On the left side is a dark dreary day. The water is still and reflects an image. The branches are bare. We all have day's which we dread. Those day's we feel stagnant-dead inside. Overwhelmed with challenges beyond our control. Not bearing fruit from our efforts. Little personal growth or accomplishment, with little to share with others. On the right is a lighthouse shinning ever so bright. Lighthouses are part of Wisconsin's history and many still function with their continued intent, which is to warn and guide ships in places or at times when dangerous to them. We to are like ships, often lost in the fog, in need guidance, direction, and warning. It's encouraging knowing, when in distress or darkness, there is a light to bring us through obstacle's and potential hazards—back in safely to our destination, ultimately home. In the Christian community, that light is God through the living sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross and in His Word as written in The Holy Bible.

In the center of the image is a red-orange hue on the horizon reflected over a vast body of water. Water is life giving in its purest form. While I was growing up, I was told by my Dad that a bright colored horizon meant the weather was going to change soon. The lesson in this was we need learn to accept change, weather, good or bad. This vast area in life, the middle ground between the dark day's and those most bright, is to be our purpose in our personal and spiritual life. To reach that place in life, out of our growth and obiediance, where balance and contentment fills those around us.

The word Wisconsin represents the demographic area we respectfully serve. We wish to represent Wisconsin's interests, culture, and heritage in a relevant and honoring format which benefits those who live, learn, work, create job's, raise families, and play here.

It's more than our mission. It's our Grand Quest, Hope For Our Future!