9-24-2024 update

9-24-24

Currently 6.5 hours from Seoul where we’ll have a 2.5 hour layover before heading to Bangkok.  (Total journey is scheduled to be 26 +hours.)

 
Many of you are beginning to hear about a class called Perspectives.   It will be offered in Zanesville (at Rolling Plains) beginning Jan 2025.  

Why do I tell you this now?  

The last Perspectives class in our area was 2011.  The benefits from that class have had many rippling effects.  One of which is an organization called International Friendships Inc. (iFI) having a chapter started at Muskingum University by a graduate of the 2011 cass.   Through that organization international students have had the opportunity to be welcomed into American homes to experience our culture and love.   (Did you know that about 98%of all international students are never once invited into an American home?). We’re called to reach the nations, yet every year the nations are at our doorsteps and most are never welcomed.  
 
Two years ago Pat (Kelly) and I had the honor of welcoming a Laotian and a Jordanian into our home.   That adventure is one I could write several chapters on, but jumping to last year, Pat and I visited our ‘Laotian daughter’ in Laos.  On that trip we had the blessing to be with her as she made the decision to follow Jesus.   Such an incredible joy!
Jump forward another year later and she has grown leaps and bounds in her faith and will be joining us on our journey!

Pahn will be a fabulous local host to us and having her as an interpreter will be a huge plus as well!  But most of all we are all  incredibly excited to go on mission with her!
I thought you’d enjoy the backstory and knowing we are a group of 4, not 3.

Here’s a link for how you can find out more about Perspectives.