We are going to be heading back to the states at the end of August for a number of reasons:
1. We haven’t been back for a home assignment since we left for Japan in Feb of 2000.
2. We will be creating on an online ministry with daily video devotional clips, weekly video leadership training, and different tools to help students grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ and their ability to lead. Most of the videos will be downloadable to students Ipods and PSP’s etc.
3. I will be starting on my masters in organizational leadership.
4. Most of you know Jen’s mom passed away last fall so we will also be helping Jen’s dad go through 40 years of accumulated stuff and renovate his house either for him to live in or to sell. We will be living with him in Roanoke, VA for probably about 9 months.
Also while we are back I will be leading some youth leader training in Germany, coming back to run Shorebreak next year in Okinawa which will include a couple of trips out to California during the year to work with the APU team and attending a couple of conferences.
We still don’t know what we will do after May of 2007. Cadence has asked us to consider a base in Germany and we might possible do some sort of discipleship house in conjunction with an ongoing youth ministry at a base. As you think about us please pray for direction from God.