We're Back on Guam

Joyce and I arrived back on Guam last night about 7 PM after a very uneventful flight. So now I am up before 4 AM as my body tries again to get used to a new time zone. Amazingly, I had no problem going the other way three weeks ago. We arrived in California on Christmas morning and jumped right into the day's festivities and then both of us slept about 12 hours that night and we had no jetlag problems the rest of the trip. Usually it is easier coming back to Guam, but it will take us a few days to get back to our normal sleep patterns.

We had a great and refreshing time on our vacation. We got to see most of my and Joyce's family and to spend a few days with all our kids together for the first time in 3 years. That was all a real blessing. We are reeeaaally going to miss them but now we are ready to get back into the work here. Joyce will be taking three classes, teaching a PIBC ESL course and teaching 9 hours a week at the Japanese school. Dave has one seminary class and an undergrad class at PIBC and will be teaching a Sunday school class at Bayview over the next few weeks. In addition we will be working on getting ready for the February board meeting, reaffirmation of accreditation with TRACS and getting our fund raising campaign off the ground. We appreciate your prayers that we will be sensitive to the leading of the Spirit so that we will be building God's kingdom and not something else, and that we will become better lovers of God and better lovers of the people around us this semester.