Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Weekend in Hawaii

Joyce and I arrived back on Guam on Tuesday evening after a productive weekend in Hawaii. We met Friday evening with Drs. Furushima and Lee (pictured with me, the president and chancellor of Hawaii Theological Seminary/California Graduate School). PIBC already has a partnership agreement with HTS through which we hope to offer Masters level courses on Guam in the near future. On Saturday I met with a group of Christian educators at the Bible Institute of Hawaii. We are looking at other possible means of cooperation that will enhance our ability to offer as many opportunities as possible for our students. I also had the opportunity to sit with the leadership of the Bible Institute of Hawaii to discuss a closer partnership. We are in now in the process of drawing up a partnership agreement that would allow us to have a teaching facility in Hawaii through BIH. Please pray for wisdom as pursue this partnership for the leadership of both schools.

On Sunday I had the opportunity to speak at Palisades Baptist Church, pastored by Mike Silva. I met Mike a few months ago to discuss ministry in Palau. We enjoyed ministering there very much. PBC is a very friendly church? We are praying that God will show us exactly what our cooperation would look like.

After church we met fellow Liebenzell missionaries, Sandy and Rose Simpson and their family. We had a good time of catching up with what is going on in each others' lives. We also got a chance to meet with Jeff and Layla Mesubed, PIBC alumni, who are now ministering at a Palauan Evangelical Church on Oahu. It was exciting to hear how God is working in their lives and hear how He is blessing them in their ministry. They asked for prayer as they begin a new Bible study ministry for Palauan young people.

On Monday we headed to the airport where we met new missionaries Tim and Melody Plaxton and Christel Churchill. We also met Jeff and Mary Johnson (our Academic VP) coming back from their summer home ministry. After a 7 1/2 hour flight we are all back on Guam and getting ready to hit the ground running for a new school year. We had a great summer but now we are excited and ready to go on a new school year.

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