For a lot of reasons, this has not been a great week. That's life, sometimes. It marches on whether you're prepared for it or not. All we can do is just ask for grace and continue taking those small steps forward with the realization that the weekend is right around the corner.
It's People Month. Yes, it's that time of year when the hordes descend on OMS for training, conference, meetings, and who knows what else people invented as an excuse to get more people in the building. This week was orientation, and we had a bigger group than we've had for a while. 17 prospective missionaries joined us this week to learn about all the things peculiar to our little mission. As usual, I joined them for the history of Christian missions session. It's always nice to get out of my office for a bit and see the new people - I often don't know we have new people until orientation or a staff briefing. That's one disadvantage to having a specialized job - not much interaction with newbies unless they'll be using Train & Multiply.
This was a prayer rally week, which meant we all gathered Wednesday morning to pray for various things. This one was a little different because we did some prayer walking. We did this last year, too. Various groups went all over the city - to the mayor's office, police station, fire houses, businesses, neighborhoods - and prayed for the services and people there. I, however, stayed back at the office and took my group through the building so we could pray over every office, cubicle, and room. We prayed for people, jobs, projects, future inhabitants, computers, safety - you name it, we covered it. There's no sense in covering everything else and leaving the home front undefended.
I've been working my way steadily through Hakha Chin. Finally, the four groups in the proof stage are done. Now, I get to work on the next four groups, taking them from formatting to creating proof files. This is the furthest we've gotten in any of the languages that I've done, so many of these will be booklets I've only ever seen in English. Should make for an interesting challenge!
I also found time this week to publish the second part of my Philippines series. Check it out if you get a chance.
As always, prayers are appreciated. Or come visit. It would be really nice to see a friendly face.
It's People Month. Yes, it's that time of year when the hordes descend on OMS for training, conference, meetings, and who knows what else people invented as an excuse to get more people in the building. This week was orientation, and we had a bigger group than we've had for a while. 17 prospective missionaries joined us this week to learn about all the things peculiar to our little mission. As usual, I joined them for the history of Christian missions session. It's always nice to get out of my office for a bit and see the new people - I often don't know we have new people until orientation or a staff briefing. That's one disadvantage to having a specialized job - not much interaction with newbies unless they'll be using Train & Multiply.
This was a prayer rally week, which meant we all gathered Wednesday morning to pray for various things. This one was a little different because we did some prayer walking. We did this last year, too. Various groups went all over the city - to the mayor's office, police station, fire houses, businesses, neighborhoods - and prayed for the services and people there. I, however, stayed back at the office and took my group through the building so we could pray over every office, cubicle, and room. We prayed for people, jobs, projects, future inhabitants, computers, safety - you name it, we covered it. There's no sense in covering everything else and leaving the home front undefended.
I've been working my way steadily through Hakha Chin. Finally, the four groups in the proof stage are done. Now, I get to work on the next four groups, taking them from formatting to creating proof files. This is the furthest we've gotten in any of the languages that I've done, so many of these will be booklets I've only ever seen in English. Should make for an interesting challenge!
I also found time this week to publish the second part of my Philippines series. Check it out if you get a chance.
As always, prayers are appreciated. Or come visit. It would be really nice to see a friendly face.
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