OK.  We won't be much of a splash but we are really content to finally have our plans to get to the field in May.  The exact day isn't decided because we are waiting for tickets.

We have been feeling blessed along the way.  While this interim of building our partner team has seemed slow it really has been fast.  Some take years.  But being an impatient person has made it seem like it was slow.  I loved my "impatience". I think there is a lesson here.  We hear again and again…

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In way of an update...we've had a great holiday season with our family in Colorado.  Mimi and I are back in the frozen tundra of Minnesota.  Over our time in CO we gained five new financial partners!  We have five others who have committed to start giving soon.  It would seem that in spite of ourselves we will be able to deploy to Benkadi some time in the Spring.

I've been thinking about how blessed we are.  Let me recount some of the blessings.  First, my brother Greg and his…

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OK...it's a new year. Frankly, I am never ready for a new year. But the new year comes anyhow. Being ready is way over-rated. The older I get the more I enjoy letting things happen rather than trying to "control" outcomes by ruminating and preparing. Sure...there are the things you "gotta do". But letting go and not thinking I can do anything is teaching me a couple of things. First, Some things are just in God's hands. Like the support we need to go to Benkadi. I have to do my partner… Continue

OK. I guess you can make some things happen. Throw the switch and the light turns on. At least if you're in America. Most other places...maybe not. But even in less reliable "public services" countries you can establish if it works or not. So you can make those things happen.



But the things you "can" make happen really only amount to moving the puzzle pieces around. Only God can make them come together to form the picture He has in mind for you and your life.



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Over the past months Mimi and I have added speaking in churches to our travel schedule of relationship building on campuses.  The result has been putting in a number of seven day weeks.  BUT...we are learning a lot that we had "forgotten".

 

There are two categories of  "forgotten".  We haven't forgotten what it's like to trust in God in an academic sense.  We've been preaching that to new missionary candidates for over a decade.  What we had "forgotten" is what it is to trust…

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So...this past week Mimi had a complete knee replacement.  She is now my "Bionic Woman".  This is all part of getting ready to join you all at CIWA.  (Which do you like...CIWA or ICWA?  One's English the other French) 

 

I have always told my overseas team members they have to be able to walk five miles and sleep on a concrete floor without a mattress.  Well...Mimi and my old bones have been missing the mark  so we are upgrading!  Both of us will be doing a lot to get ready for…

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Hey all!  It is way past time for me to begin interacting on the JC web site.  I think I became a member the day after the web site opened.  For you Journeyers, you may have heard about Phil and Mimi's plans to come and join the leadership at JC doing some member care and career coaching.  My purpose today is simply to introduce ourselves.

 

First of all, we're Aaron's parents.  We pray you won't hold that against us.  No matter what you've heard we're really pretty decent…

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