Its getting crazy

With RefGen over, and our two week break gone like a flash, its back onboard the crazy train for us as a staff. Our current discipleship training school team that was away on outreach came home, gave a great report of how God worked through them in the nations, and this afternoon they graduated. Now we are flinging ourselves into two and a half weeks of preparatory hyperdrive in anticipation of our Fall students. There is A LOT to do. I feel like i am making new lists fast as I get things done! 

I'm serious when I say its getting crazy- energy is running high and sometimes everyone gets just outright goofy- its a good stress reliever- and of course, we just love to have fun as a staff family:)

RefGen 2013 in a nutshell

Made this video for possible use on our website, just to give a glimpse into what a nonstop month of RefGen looks like here in Maui:) 

Because of the upload size, the quality isn't great, but as long as you view it small, you'll at least get the gist of it:)

summer moments

Over the past week and a half as the base has been on break, I have been really grateful to enjoy some summer moments... some opportunities to sleep in, relax, and enjoy the quiet of an iced coffee on a sunny afternoon at home.

This coming week kicks off the Fall semester- our SBFM opening night is just a month away already! But before all that full time prep work gets underway, there is still a couple last days of our break... which means a couple more chances to enjoy restful moments of summer:)

wrapping it up

We are now in the last couple days of RefGen and we are focussing a lot on coaching the participants through processing what God has done in this past month and preparing for re-entry (into their lives and situations back home). For many of them, this has been a remarkable time of transformation; its our desire that when these young men and women return home, they continue to cultivate what God has planted in them.
While the program officially finishes in less than two days, we're not out of the woods yet. Personally, I  still have one more teaching session, some further logistical work (planning airport drop offs, facility clean up, video editing, etc), and then a bunch of administrative wrap up of leadership responsibilities (reports, accounting, etc). And of course this will all be saturated in personal interaction, supporting and praying for participants, mini-counseling sessions, and so on:)

Please continue over the next few days to pray for me, my co-leader, our staff, and the program participants as we wrap up our summer together. Thank you for your prayers and support this summer- its been outstanding seeing these young men and women coming alive from the inside out!

Coming up next: a week of summer break! We have a two week summer break, but I will have to spend about half of it wrapping up  RefGen and setting up the Fall SBFM I am leading in September. I will still have a full week to catch up with friends, sleep in (praise the Lord!) and rest!