Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.
(J. Sidlow Baxter)
Archive for July, 2006
Power of Prayer
24
Jul
They’re Baaaack!!
08
Jul
Yay!! Mom and Dad are back in town!!
They’ve been away for six months. Two trips to Western Africa bookending a partner development trip to Germany, where they also got to visit with a lot of our friends and relatives. Mom and Dad participate in workshops wherein they teach translation skills and strategies to nationals. This allows multiple Bible translation projects to take place at once.
I usually get to see my parents at least once a week (they live about 30 minutes away from my house) and talk to them on the phone multiple times each week. So six months was quite a long time. I suppose it’s good practice for when I leave for the field.
Of course when they got in, they were exhausted. They’d been up for about 27 hours at that point!!! So a bunch of hugs and a few stories later, I headed back home so they could go to sleep. I plan on spending most of the day with them today.
Yay!! I’m so happy that they are home again! 
Remaining Training Days – Part 2
02
Jul
Sunday was another relaxing day. Church in the morning – we had a series of questions to answer about the churches we visited. We were to look at each of our churches through the lens of an appointee since we’ll all be visiting numerous churches soon. I went to a large church with Kelly Jo and Jon and since it was a very depressing service, I won’t mention the name of it. We’re really hoping that service was the exception to the rule and everyone who knows the church seems to believe that was the case. In the evening, we all got together to discuss our churches.
Tracy and I took the afternoon for some down time by getting pedicures. Gotta love that!!! I’ll do everything I can to dispel that nasty myth about missionaries and their fashion sense. 
After our meeting in the evening, we all got together to make sushi. Asa, a Japanese woman in our class, and Matt, one of the other guys in the class were the ringleaders. Asa brought her rice cookers from home and taught us all how to roll sushi. I even got to roll my own sushi! How fun is that!?!?!? Way cool!
Remaining Training Days – Part 1
01
Jul
Well, I did promise you an update on the remainder of my Colorado trip. So here we go – just the highlights!
On Friday morning we heard from the treasurer who explained to us a little of how our accounts will work and the options we have of accessing/maintaining them. He also told us about all of the other financial aspects that World Venture manages for us: financial commitments and support, gifts, healthcare, retirement, etc. Once I’m on the field they’ll even file my taxes for me! Talk about motivation to get to Africa!!!
Friday afternoon was nerd heaven, and I loved it! We talked about the World Venture websites and all that we can access through it, prayer letters (both on line and on paper), and a variety of web portals that will come in quite handy. Now, I just have to remember where to find them and then practice. Tee hee.
