Hope Where There Is Little

If you haven't checked into our human trafficking prevention ministry, HOPE61, you should. We're trying to prevent things like this: http://www.mnnonline.org/article/18594.

Come See Me!

I will be traveling quite a bit in the next few weeks speaking at churches and making home appointments. If you are available and close to one of the locations, I'd love to see you! Here's the schedule for June:

June 2 morning (10:30am): Cold Springs Church - Fayetteville, PA

June 2 evening (7pm): Fountain UB - Keyser, WV

June 5 evening (6pm): Franklintown UB - Franklintown, PA

June 9 morning (9, 10:30am): Hillsdale UB - Hillsdale, MI

June 23 morning (10:30am): Corunna UB - Corunna, IN

June 26-29: UB National Conference - Fort Wayne, IN

June 30 morning (10:30am): Mount Pleasant UB - Angola, IN

I will also be making one-on-one appointments, so if you're in the area and would like to get coffee or lunch, give me a call. 260.224.4291

And pray for traveling mercies!

Confluence

Definition of CONFLUENCE
1

a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point
2
a : the flowing together of two or more streams
b : the place of meeting of two streams
c : the combined stream formed by conjunction

I've been using this word a lot lately. Trying to figure out how and why things happen is one of the great things about being a historian. But it's also not that fun when what you're trying to figure out hasn't become history, yet. I used to do current event reports, and I hated it because I could never find all the pieces to the puzzle.

Years from now, I will look back on this time with faint remembrance. I will know what led to it. I will know where it, in turn, led. It will be history.

But right now, it's still current events.

Pray-ers

I just sent 33 letters to mission leaders in the UB churches asking for a chance to present my ministry at an event in their church.

If each of these letters results in only $100/month in pledged giving, I will be fully funded.

Pray that the letters and follow-up calls will be well received and that I will have many opportunities to speak to people.

Pray for open hearts.

A Tale of Puppets

In the midst of meetings, editing and the everyday whirlwind, we do still find time for fun.

It started here:

When I first started at OMS, I bought finger puppets because my workspace buddy and I couldn't see each other over the wall. (The dinosaur came later.) So we communicated by puppet. But then she moved, and my puppets and I were lonely for a while. But then James came and the puppets again had a purpose.

Then James moved to an office. And I may have drawn this:

So James moved my finger puppets.

And you don't touch the puppets.

So naturally, I had to respond.

James tried to make nice.

But that just didn't sit well.

 

So I found some allies.

And James didn't take kindly to that.

So I reminded him of his roots.

James graciously conceded. But not before exclaiming, "You murdered me a million years ago?!"

Let's ignore the evolutionary implications of that and just laugh evilly.