This is from our email prayer letter which we send (semi)regularly to our supporting churches and individuals...
Greetings from sunny Guam where dry season (also known as less-wet season) seems to have finally begun. We are moving toward the end of another school year and getting ready for our reaffirmation of accreditation evaluation visit in a month. We have been feverishly working on manuals, assessment of learning and long range plans. While I would rather be spending time in the classroom I understand the need for someone to do all this stuff to support what is done in the classroom. We are blessed with a great faculty-staff here that pitches in to get this stuff done and at the same time stays engaged with the students to minister to them. I know we are all going to take a very deep breath after the semester’s activities are all over May 21. I am wrapping up my seminary class (OT Survey) with three more Saturday morning sessions to go and then Finals. My Genesis Exegesis students are working hard to get in all their on line work to me by May 8th. Joyce is finishing up her PIBC class work and the PIBC ESL class she is teaching (In the picture she is guest teaching in the elementary ed. class). Her semester at the Japanese school won’t end until the end of May.
Here are some of our prayer requests…
Praises
- On May 12th 9 students will graduate. A few of them will be getting married this summer, one the weekend after graduation.
- We are expecting our 3rd grandchild at the end of May – We would appreciate your prayers for Matt and Kristin and the yet unnamed child.
- PIBC got some good publicity as I, and one of our students was interviewed on the local news station show, KUAM News Extra.
Requests
- Please pray for students and staff to end the semester well
- We are already getting in some applications for next year. Please pray that our admissions committee will have wisdom to admit the students God wants at PIBC
- With the many changes that have to be implemented for next year – name change is only one – we would appreciate your prayers for the many transitions that need to take place
- We have an urgent need for an experienced CFO and Executive VP – we are losing a good portion of our administrators as missionary terms end.
- Our Thailand Mission team is raising financial and prayer support for their summer mission trip. Here is their web site for more info: http://pibcthaiteam.blogspot.com/
- PIBC is beginning a campaign to raise $500,000 in annual support (mainly to employ needed teachers and staff) and $5.5 million in capital funds (mainly for building an academic building, dorm expansion and staff housing) through private donations and foundation and government grants.
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