September News

The weather has begun to shift, ever so slightly. Summer wants to hang on, but the shorter days and lower sun give little hope beyond these last couple of weeks of summer.
What a summer! We moved on July 15 to the new home in Cottage Grove. Then, after just two + weeks we took off in early August to England. There, on August 14, our lovely daughter Lindsay was married to Peter Osborne. I left the next day to return to Madison, whereupon, a quick wash of clothes and one night in my own bed, I returned to the airport to join 10 others from the training center and a trip to Madras (Chennai), India. We left on the morning of the 16th! I should muse on that sometime soon. Two weeks later I returned home -- literally gone 27 of the 31 days of August!
Linda got a new job at East High School. Unfortunately, it didn't start at the beginning of the school year, so she not only had to begin the year for Chavez, but she also had to allow her work at East build up and wait until she could come on Sept. 10.
I started work at the Training center in a new school year: 45 new students in the Discipleship Intensive, 35 returning students to do the Bible Intensive, and 15 more to do the Ministry Internship -- I feel humbled and privileged to be able to stand in front of them and talk about their relationship to God.
The last bit of summer is Andy's soon departure for England and his "gap" year study with Bristol Christian Fellowship's M6-8 course. He leaves in just a few days now.