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  • Rebekah and Colleges

    Rebekah graduates from High School in the Spring and is having a challenge picking her top 2 or 3 colleges. Like her father (!), she has a hard time narrowing down the choices. She has done extremely well in school and on the ACT & SAT tests. We are very proud of her. We also…

  • Indigitous Conferences

    We work with a ministry in Campus Crusade called Digital Strategies. Over the next few months they are holding 3 “Indigitous” Conferences outside of the U.S. for the purpose of making “Digital Strategies to Call People to Jesus”. http://www.indigitous.org/ Digital Strategies is looking for existing online tools they can use for specific ministry applications. Our…

  • Chalk Art

    I agreed to participate in Rebekah and Julia’s school’s Chalk Art competition last Saturday so I could be with them and their friends. We made a practice drawing at home. Then I found out there would be prizes to the top entries. Hmmm… Now I wanted to win. We didn’t win, but I did achieve…

  • Shared Leadership

    Our ministry, Campus Crusade for Christ International, is structuring the leadership so it is shared more by a group and less from a total “top-down” structure. The group are leaders in a certain area of expertise (Student Ministries, City Ministries as well as Human Resources, Finance, Technical, and Operations). This style of leadership requires a…

  • Four Disciplines

    Our team built a WIG (Wildly Important Goal) of releasing 300 personal ministry websites by the end of July. We used a method of setting goals while continuing to work on the day-to-day routine by following The Four Disciplines of Execution by McChesney and Covey. It was extremely helpful to separate the “where do we want to…

  • First Day of School

    Today is the first day of high school for Rebekah and Julia. Rebekah starts her senior year and said jokingly “Last time I have to do this” (pose for picture).  She is taking 4 AP classes and 1 Honors course. Julia starts her sophomore year. She is taking her first AP class (World History) and…

  • GCX Training to Reach Goals

    Our team is trying to reach a self-imposed goal of 300 ministry websites “released” by July 31. Part of that involves regular workshops for GCX (www.gcx.org) training. All of us have conducted training several times this year, including at the Cru Staff Conference in Colorado earlier this month. Here is David Hand (our team leader)…

  • Staff Conference Kickoff

    Holly and I finished the first day of the 2013 Cru staff conference. Several thousand of “our closest friends” have gathered with us. After registration, the first day was designed to be a big reunion of co-workers–some of whom we haven’t seen for several years because they have been serving in different countries. It was…

  • 2013 Staff Conference — preparation

    We are preparing to leave for Cru’s Staff Conference in Colorado. This is held every two years, in mid-July, at Colorado State University. I compare it to running a long race. When I ran a half-marathon last year, the race organizers did not assume all the runners could get through the 13.1 miles happily on…