Friday, October 30, 2009

Weekend in Northern and Southern California

After a drive back up to La Mirada from San Diego (Milo and I had a little time to get acquainted in the two days I spent in San Diego as you can see from the picture - thank you Sarah) Steve and I met our Liebenzell USA director and PIU chairman of the board at Michael and Samantha's house. Mike and Samantha are in the process of getting approved as Liebenzell USA missionaries and hope to be raising support soon to head back to Guam after Mike graduates next Spring. We spent a couple hours talking about how to get Mike and Sam out by August 2010 so they can be in place for next school year. That evening I made my annual trip to In 'n' Out and got one of their great hamburgers


The next day Steve and I flew up to Sacramento. We flew up with two of the Sacramento Kings players sitting a couple rows in front of me. I didn't get an opportunity to talk NBA basketball with them. We pretty much dropped off our stuff at my parents' place and immediately made the four hour drive to Susanville to speak at the Southern Baptist Church there. We met my former Emmaus student from 1984-5, Jacob Ngiraiblosch, and the pastor of the church, John Murdock there and had a great evening talking about how we can help the ministry to the Micronesians that are spread out all over the US mainland. The next morning we spoke (actually I spoke, Steve had pretty much lost his voice) at both the Palauan and English services at the church. There was a lot of interest in our distance education program from both groups and four Palauan students told us that they are very interested in attending PIU next Fall. I had not really thought about Micronesians on the US mainland as an audience for our DE classes but having them in there would be great. I do appreciate the good prayer and support that comes from the Susanville Palauans and the Southern Baptist Church there.

After lunch Steve and I took a nice drive through Lassen National Park and made it to Redding in time to spend the evening with Joyce's parents, sister Judy and brother-in-law Wayne. We celebrated her dad's birthday by eating pie a-la-mode and watching football. Thanks to TIVO we watched three games in a just a few hours.

3 comments:

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Dave Owen said...

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