Earlier in September I traveled to Orlando to help train a new class of missionaries in how to raise their financial support teams. This is exactly what I did during the 90s when we lived in the States. The training was divided into 4 classes or workshops so the training could be easily individualized.
The workshop that I assisted had a very unique quality. Many of these missionaries pictured above are going to HARD SOIL PLACES: French-speaking Africa, East Asia, Paris (spiritually speaking, Paris is very hard soil)and Islamic parts of Asia.. Many of these have returned for additional training from one year assignments at these tough locations and are going back full-time.
It thrilled me to be part of the equation in getting these missionaries to their remote locations.
It has been my growing conviction that here in Eastern Europe, our staff need standardize training and coaching in the area of fund-development. Each country has developed their own methods; some are successful, many are not. Therefore I brought with me 3 of our Campus Crusade missionaries to learn this training and to help me begin to implement it throughout Eastern Europe.
Here are the three staff from Eastern Europe that were with me in Orlando. They are from Albania, Romania and Moldova. Pictured here is my old boss and friend Ellis Goldstein (2nd from right) who directs all of Campus Crusade's fund developmnet training.
Edi from Albania and Elvis from Romania both try on football helmets for the first time during some time off in Orlando.
I traveled to Kansas a few days before the Orlando training so I could visit our two kids at college. It was also Liz's 20th birthday. No longer a teenager! We had a brief visit with family. Here is Liz along with her grandma (left, Charlotte Biays) and her aunt Sherla (EB's sister).
While in Orlando, I visited Campus Crusade's world-wide headquarters.
When I got back to Budapest, I learned that EB and the kids "rescued" a cat that was abandoned at our veternarian's clinic. Our dog Regan took an instant liking to the yet-unnamed cat and the two are now inseperable. Here they are cuddling on our porch.
Thank you for standing with us in ministry; together we are playing a fruitful part in taking the gospel to the nations.
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