Until We Meet Again

One of the joys of our ministry here at the training center is to meet so many great people.  We greatly enjoy investing in people and building a relationships with them.  Although we are so happy and excited to see our graduates moving on into the next phase of ministry the good-byes are always hard as you never know if and when we will see them again.   A few days ago we said good-bye to our good friends, Megan and Christian and their three boys. We had the priveldge to spending a lot of quality time together.  Our lives have been enriched by their friendship.  After their 20 months here in Canada we made a lot of fun memories and we will really MISS these dear dear people.  Now we will be cheering them on from afar.

Building Blocks for Strengthening Families

Last week I had the privilege of attending an  MK Summit.  This group of people heavily invests in the lives of MK's and the missionary families.  The MK Care Team, the Educational Resource Team, someone representing one of our Bible schools, and overseas consultants attended (some via skype) were in attendance.  Our theme was "Building Blocks for Strengthening Familes".  We heard reports from all the different departments and there was a lot of brainstorming and sharing of ideas.  We also talked about how we can help families who live in isolated situations.  We also had a guest presenter who skyped in to give us a seesion on Building Stronger Emotional Health through art therapy.  She has many years of experience as an art therapist. For the past ten years she has invested her time in helping the missionary family with all the transitions and extra stesses they live under.  Through art therapy she has seen God bring healing, seen relationships restored, seen children's stress level decrease and a host of other things.  I appreciated all her creative ideas to help the missionary family thrive.  It is always an encouragement to hang out with coworkers who are spread out all over the world, but who have the same focus in helping our missionary families.  I have come back with some new resources and ideas that I hope will enhance my ministry.

Chef Vernon

Vern is in the middle of teaching a curriculum development class.  He tries to pull in all sorts of examples while he is teaching.  As is talks about all the prep that goes into writing up lessons he talked about cooking and all the prep you go through.  So as a fun out of class event, he cooks a Chicken Curry meal for the student body.  I help in cutting things up and making naan bread but he is definitely the main cook.  It is always so much fun to hang and connect with out students especially over yummy food.