We have a wild and wooly few days coming up! Yikes!
Zach is here in Lillian, Alabama visiting until Wednesday (for the very first time since we moved here!) to celebrate his 27th birthday! So last night we went to a wonderful (wonderful = expensive + tasty + expensive!) resturant in downtown Pensacola. It was great! Ate too much, but the Thai ribs are to die for!
Wednesday Phyllis and I help host a booth at a local church’s festival. I’m sure it’s an alternative-to-Haloween-type gig, but Globe will have a booth giving candy, etc. to kids who can find a location on a map. Fun! Hey! Globe’s all about education, huh?
Thursday (All Saints Day) we have a lunch gathering of the Globe Leadership Team. Truly a gathering of the Saints! (smile) It’s always fun and challenging as we look at Globe and it’s future. Doug and Beth Gehman will host, of course, but Sandy Carter, Scott and Dawn Brown and Phyllis and I will round out the grand gathering.
Friday morning Doug and I fly to Tegucigalpa, Honduras for the weekend. Back on Tuesday. We’ll be there with Juan Cruz, a great Globe missionary whose making a big difference training leaders in Latin America. It’s the INSTE graduation. We get back on Tuesday. Not sure what all we’ll do there. First time in Honduras. I understand the landing at the airport is the most exciting part of the trip…
On Wednesday, Phyllis and I are figuring a way to get to New Braunfels, TX. There is a memorial service for our good friend Bob Keith who died last weekend. He was the retired rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church there in New Braunfels, but he was living out his retirement in Georgia. We met when he was serving the Church of Uganda (Anglican) and we were living in Nairobi, Kenya. I was speaking at an Anglican Renewal Kenya conference out in western Kenya. He was there sitting on the front row with Henry Orombi, then a bishop in the COU, but now the archbishop. Bob was a great guy! We laughed a lot together! And cried together, too. The earth is poorer without his laugh.
Phyllis and I want to be at this service, but boy it’s hard to figure both time and money to get there. So right now, we’re thinking to drive (11 hrs) on Wednesday and spend the night with Chuck and MaryNell Hall in New Braunfels. (Don’t tell them we’re coming, yet. I haven’t called them. But I will! I will! Don’t panic!) We’ll go to the service and then drive back Thursday afternoon.
Saturday we have the big Walking on Water premier movie in Pensacola. We’re showcaseing our Globe training initiaves and doing concessions there.
Wild!
