Global Committee Meetings

The global committee meetings actually began last night with a dinner to celebrate the 25 th anniversary of Hans Gegenbach with the Liebenzell Mission at Charlie Brown's steak house. Hans came in from Germany that evening with Liebenzell Mission International executives Detlef Krause and Martin Auch. Jake Koch, the director of Liebenzell Canada and several of the LMUSA staff and board joined us as well. We had a relaxed evening of catching up on each others' lives and talking about Liebenzell's ministries around the world. There were also more than a few funny stories and jokes told.

On Friday morning the actual meetings began. We had several PIBC and Micronesia strategy and personnel issues to be discussed. We are facing a crisis situation on our Chuuk campus because of a shortage of personnel. With our leadership spread across the world it is just good to once in a while to get in the same room, see each others' faces and hear each other's voices on the issues. I was thankful for the spirit of camaraderie and unity displayed in the meeting and I think we resolved many long burning issues.

After lunch we met with the LMUSA Global Committee. Again the issue (of my part of the meeting) was how the various parts of Liebenzell Mission could work together with PIBC and how we could bring new partners into the work. There seemed to be great agreement on the vision for the school and a renewed commitment to work together to accomplish it. I am excited about the new people coming in to leadership in Global Ministries and looking forward to see what God is going to do. Today's meetings ended with presentations about the mission's work around the world. I'm looking forward to the LMUSA Board meeting tomorrow.