Baccalaureate

I am posting now from La Mirada, as we made it OK to Michael and Samantha's house this morning. Before I start posting on that though I will get caught up with the events of the last couple days on Guam. Sunday was the baccalaureate service for the Guam campus. We had the service at Faith Presbyterian and Reformed Church. As you can see in the picture (taken while the faculty group was singing) we had a very good crowd for the service. New faculty member, and now dean of our new seminary, Eric Sorenson gave the graduates a stirring sermon that emphasized the great value of the skills they had learned at PIBC and encouraged them to use them. Our salutatorian, Jayvina Chimwitew, also gave an excellent address. We were proud of her.

After the service we had a good time of fellowship with parents, alumni and students. We went home and tried to go to bed early, since we were picking up Yosta and Maggie Lodge coming in from Chuuk at 4.00 on Monday morning. Yosta is our Chuuk campus director and was the speaker for the Guam campus graduation. Yosta and Maggie are the parents of Happiness Lodge one of our graduating students. Of course we didn't go to bed early, but my sometimes trustworthy San Francisco 49er helmet alarm clock woke me up and I was able to get them at the airport on time. Yosta was coming up right after the Chuuk campus baccalaureate service, which we heard also went very well. We slept in a little, but not much, because we had a lot to do before graduation and getting ready to leave...