TRAVELING

Pismo Beach
We've been traveling a lot the last two weeks. We spent four days with Chris, Nicole & Esther, several families from Band Barnabas, and several families from the Center in an annual camping excursion at Pismo Beach on the South Central Pacific Coast (April 6-9).








Back to Pasadena
We returned to Pasadena for a day and a half so Chuck could take part in the quarterly William Carey International University (WCIU) Stakeholders/Board meeting. Chuck presented a brief summary of developments in delivering our program online and moderated a panel of community members who have had personal experience in some form of distance learning. WCIU is uniquely poised to provide a powerfully effective Masters Degree to distant students with a special emphasis on: 1/ proven leaders in the Global South, 2/ bicultural scholars in the Global South, 3/ cross cultural workers for NGOs in the Global South, and 4/ members of churches in North America who have a passion for equipping others, or being equipped themselves, for cross-cultural service.

Chandler, AZ
We left Pasadena Wednesday (4/11) afternoon to travel to Chandler, AZ, a suburb of Phoenix, to meet with John and Debbie Hervey, veteran cross cultural workers. John and Debbie facilitate listening prayer (sometimes referred to as "inner healing prayer") - a tremendous personal resource for cross cultural workers and a proven way of engaging those who are genuine God-seekers who are not Jesus-followers yet. We stayed with them until Saturday morning (4/14) when we traveled to Globe, AZ.










Globe, AZ
In Globe, we met my sisters, Joyce and Janet, and Janet's husband, George as we explored our family roots in this mining town (today's population about 20,000) that was once a bustling boom town of 60,000! It appears our mother's grandfather was one of the earliest settlers. Kellner Canyon is named for the area where he operated a sawmill.









My mother's father operated a general store with his brother for a number of years. This is how the store front looks today.








My mother's brother, Billy, in a photo overlooking the city of Globe from the plot of land where much of the family lived for a number of years.


My mother, her sisters and parents. Billy had died at age 18.











To Summarize...
We returned to Pasadena last night (4/16). Overall, it was great preparation for what we will be doing in India. We expect relationships, family, healing and restoration will play important roles in advancing the Kingdom in our lives and the lives of those around us there.