WEA Thailand

In Pattaya, Thailand this week for meetings of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA). (Does it appear that I am traveling a bit this fall!!) For 10 years, I worked with WEA leading their Religious Liberty Commission (RLC. I was so encouraged to meet with my friends here who lead the alliance of churches in Mongolia. To think that a mere 18 years ago, there was no church and very few believers.

I also very much enjoyed seeing my long-time colleague and friend Godfrey Yogarajah, from Sri Lanka (speaking at this panel discussion), get appointed as the new director of the RLC. Way to go, bro!

Partnership Training in Indonesia

I am in Indonesia this week helping to lead partnership training for sports ministry leaders from Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei, Singapore, and Indonesia (among others). Cool young women and men who are dedicated to using sports as a community outreach and development strategy. As is often the case, I learned much more from them than they probably did from me!

REACT Board Retreat

The annual REACT Services Board retreat was held this year at the Edgewater Hotel and with dinner together at the fine Anthony's Restaurant in downtown Seattle. Board meetings had taken place earlier in the day at Mars Hill Graduate School so we were ready to have for some celebratory times with some soecial friends and spouses!





The next morning we then ferried over to Bainbridge Island for breakfast and some teambuilding together. What a great group of guys i am privileged to have as part of the REACT Service team.

Bean Town!!

In the spectacular city of Boston this week for meetings on the church in China. The place we are meeting is just two short blocks up from the famous Boston Commons where I just had to get a picture!

Spokane Boys!

A short visit to Spokane this weekend to visit the boys. As usual lots of food and fun was had by all!

In addition we took in a soccer game and watched them play for their school league. Here, some apparent in-game strategy conversations are going on (John and Joe are in the white shirts).