Back on Guam

We have hit the ground running as we prepare for another school year. Our major crisis has been finding a replacement for our Guam Campus Director, Steve Stinnette, who will be on the mainland for at least two years for medical treatment on his eye. We have decided to have our Finance VP, Jens Schulz also take on the task of Guam Campus Director. We are trying to recruit a local guy (hopefully a PIBC graduate) as his administrative assistant. We also have moved Brad Boydston into the position of Academic VP. Yesterday we had our Liebenzell missionary meetings (group pictured). It was a good time of fellowship, prayer and discussion of the work. Tomorrow we will begin our teacher's conference and orientation meeting. It will include seminars on distance education led by our former foster son, David Ahlgren.

Joyce has been working with the campus preparation crew. They have been working hard to get the dorms ready for the students to arrive. The picture shows the result if the "bug bomb" Joyce set off in the ladies' dorm. With so many of our staff being missionaries who were off island for support raising all summer, we have to do a lot of things at the last minute.

Thursday night we were reminded of why we are here as the students who went on the mission trip to Thailand shared about their experiences. They shared about cross-cultural learning experiences, making new friends, and, most importantly, leading people to Christ and having an opportunity to share their lives with them. It was obvious that this was a "faith-stretching" experience for each of the students that has already had a major impact on their maturity. We pray that they will "infect" the rest of the students and their church communities with their vision for fulfilling the Great Commission.

I will post my prayer requests for the start of the semester in the next post....