Hello, friends!
Has this week felt super long to anyone else? Every day just felt interminable. I had a fair few meetings, sure, but it's not usually quite this bad. Maybe I'm just trying to subconsciously stretch out the summer. Who knows?
So, like I said, meetings, not least of which was the big secret project celebration! Yay!
So, Sarah and I have been working on this for pretty much ever. We knew ECC was coming to an end (though it lives on in our hearts!), and we wanted to do something for Mike and Larry, our two fearless leaders. Mike has been the Global Director of ECC for many years, and Larry served as the director of church multiplication. They have truly been rock stars. Sarah and I wanted to show our appreciation, but it can be difficult to do when we all live in different places and those two tend to travel. A lot.
But we made it work. We know (thanks to our past work on retreats) that Mike and Larry's languages of appreciation are both Words of Affirmation. So Sarah created word clouds from things people sent us about how they felt about Mike and Larry, and then she helped me put together Shutterfly books with quotes and pictures from over the years. They turned out pretty well, I think. We were also, through the generosity of our fellow coworkers, able to gift each couple a weekend away.
I honestly don't know what I'll do with my life now that this project is done.
HA! There's plenty to do. For starters, I finally got my passport renewal form out this week. It has been waiting a while, mostly because no one was going anywhere and also because I still don't know if I can force myself onto an airplane anytime soon. Last time I was on one, I had a massive panic attack, though I didn't know that's what it was at the time. It triggers me something powerful. But there is no healing if we don't try, and we can't try if we don't have the proper tools. So that's done.
I also finished my prayer letter this week. I don't want to call it a chore, because it really isn't, but it can be difficult to distill everything I want to say into two pages. I can't just be stream-of-consciousness like I am on here. There has to be a theme and cohesion, and that's not always my bailiwick. But I do hope you enjoy that when it arrives. If you do not already receive my prayer letter, please leave a comment, and I'll get in touch.
I have also been working on Spanish booklets this week. Yes, we have officially been done with Spanish for a while, but we decided it might be a good idea to have a different art set, so I've been converting those files. It's actually taking a decent amount of time to do. I might have to interrupt it next week. We'll see.
That just about covers it. I did run A/V for chapel on Wednesday, which is always an adventure. I guess the most I can say about it is that I learn something new every time I do it. But I think it ended up mostly okay. We survived, and I got to see Sarah (and Cody and Brian) get recognition for their years of service with OMS. I am very happy to count her as a friend, and I could not do this job without her.
Bye!
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