End of summer, and I feel like it’s time for a report. Just the facts ma’am.
We welcomed a new family, Mike, Aleesha, and their two children, on staff this week. They were students in the last school, and we are so excited to have them here.
More new staff are coming in October.
I am facilitating a series of workshops for the Staff Development department based on the acronym S.H.A.P.E. (Spiritual Gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality, Experience). The workshops flow directly from the things I have been learning in this last season. We each bring something different to the table…our perspective, skills, gifting, experiences, mistakes, passions, dreams…all these things make us who we are. As we discover these things in one another, we grow stronger as a team and develop a sense of purpose from our unique identity. So…these workshops are to grow deeper in our understanding of how God made us, and to engage one another in the process. I am really excited to share with my team from the things God has been teaching me.
The entire staff is going on outreach together. We do this every other year, with “family vacation” in the off years, to grow as a team. This year we are going to Mexico, hopefully to work with a school for the deaf. Exciting stuff. I don’t know if the students speak American Sign Language or another language, but I love any chance I get to sign.
After our outreach, we will attend the Jubilee celebration for YWAM’s 50th year. I really like opportunities like this because it helps me understand YWAM better.
And in my personal life, I am flying to Texas this Wednesday (18th) to help a friend tie up some lose ends from her interstate move.
Planes, trains, and automobiles…after staying in the same place for almost eight months, I will be covering lots of ground in August!
Raindrops in the Ocean 