8/5/09 Nebraska welcomed me home with open arms and much activity. I have was involved in Nikki's wedding, which was encouraging, enjoyable, and creatively thought through. Thank you for letting me a part of your very special day.
I spent all day on the first of Aug packing, weighing, unpacking, repacking, reweighing and sorting and shreding. It was a very full and exhausting day, but I felt very productive and on the second and third I was significantly sore from lifting 50-70lb luggage and steping on a scale and holding still until a weight was logged. Those of you who know how fidgity I am know how hard it must have been to stand still.
I had a nice dinner with Joyce and Bill Ross on the fourth and was able to connect and hear some of their life stories.
I leave on the 6th to go to Wyoming. Hopefully I will get to speak at Highland Park or at least talk to Pastor Milo before I leave Casper to come back to Lincoln.
The great part is that I have my plane tickets bought and my visa has arrived. I am for sure leaving Sept 13th. All is very exciting!!!
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Colorado!!
7/21/09
I am so thankful that God created Colorado!! It is so beautiful here. I have had the joy and privilege to meet one of my teammates at training and be reacquainted with one of the families on my team here. The enthusiasm and encouragement I received from them was so wonderful. I began training on the 15th and have so far learned:
*Crisis Management
*Theology of Suffering
*Revisited Family/Single issues
*Personal Culture vs. Corporate or Communal Culture
*Ethics and Identity
and
*Beginning to learn skills on how to
train my mouth to make non English sounds.
The long and short of it is that I have been pretty busy and my brain is very tired.
I have 9 more days left before I return to Nebraska. I intend to continue to make the best of it. Please visit my prayer link to see what you can pray for.
I am so thankful that God created Colorado!! It is so beautiful here. I have had the joy and privilege to meet one of my teammates at training and be reacquainted with one of the families on my team here. The enthusiasm and encouragement I received from them was so wonderful. I began training on the 15th and have so far learned:
*Crisis Management
*Theology of Suffering
*Revisited Family/Single issues
*Personal Culture vs. Corporate or Communal Culture
*Ethics and Identity
and
*Beginning to learn skills on how to
train my mouth to make non English sounds.
The long and short of it is that I have been pretty busy and my brain is very tired.
I have 9 more days left before I return to Nebraska. I intend to continue to make the best of it. Please visit my prayer link to see what you can pray for.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
At the Center of the USA
March 20-22, 2009.
So for the last 2 years at least my friend Suzanne and I have been talking how we were going to get together since her move to Clay Center, KS. We finally made good on that discussion. It only takes me leaving to make it happen. Suzanne was a pivotal part on mym journey to get to China. When I went to China in 2001, she was one of the people who I went with. We, together with several other American's, went to a university and participated in a cultural exchange with Chinese College students. So, needless to say it was AWEsome to be with her, re-live some memories, meet her daughter, see the zoo!!!! and talk with her and Grant about my future plans. The joy of being a part of a faith family that is scattered through out the United States as well as the World is so real when I am constantly reconnecting with sisters broters.
I loved seeing the tiny zoo that is smaller than Lincoln's. One of the joys was seeing Tori point at each animal and say "cat" or "dog" and the other was the squirrel exhibit. :) see photo.
