I know all of my readers are waiting on pins and needles (right?!) for today’s Status of Eastern Europe, and the promised Friday Future article from last week. Unfortunately you will have to wait a little longer, but at least I can tell you why.
For the past several days I have been at a upg Consultation in the northern neck of the United States. This was a wonderful experience (as most such partnership consultations are). It is hosted by a church that is, in my view, in many ways an anomaly worth modeling: a small rural congregation of about 150 people, but of those about a third have been on overseas missions trips. They have ministered in 45 countries and have adopted a megapeople in the North Africa/Middle East bloc (sufficiently anonymized?) and hosted the annual North American Support Partnership Consultation. This was a group of about a dozen or so people, and it was my first time in attendance.
It was wonderful discovering several people with who know people that I know… Being two “degrees” away, as it were. And, then to discover that one of the early “sparks” of this particular partnership was the activity of a small Anglican mission agency. A very long time ago, in my very young days, I pulled a database report the agency eventually used to create a formative list of people groups they would focus on, and on that report was this particular group. Wonderful to come back and reconnect with something that I was tangentially involved in very early on, and to now get to participate further.
The upshot of this particular conference is that I will be participating in some very specific (and I hope helpful) ways, which due to security (of course…grin) I won’t be able to talk about too much on this public blog (but I will send a private report to our supporters and those who donated to the trip).
In the meantime, I am on my way home. Today my first flight was significantly delayed and I am sitting in an airport waiting for the flight I got rerouted on. I will hopefully be posting a bunch of stuff in the next couple of days.
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