Life speeds up

Hi. This last week Hilary has been at a re-entry seminar for MK high school graduates. This conference really helps kids who have been out of the country for extended periods of time, even to the point where they are not sure which country to call "home".

Hilary has been very encouraged by 40 other students who identify with the same kinds of mixed feelings of leaving a foreign country, and lifelong friends to re-enter America. You may think "What's wrong with America? Isn't it really easy to come back and enjoy things like Wendy's and Cable TV? But the issues are more than that... Hilary's class of 28 graduating students are going all over the USA, and overseas as well. Hilary and one other will be at JBU, one will be in St. Paul, Mn, one will be going to Houghton, one will be going to Cornell, 3 will be going to Wheaton, 1 will be going to a Bible school in England, so you see how scattered this fairly close-knit group will be.

So now you may say.. "oh, well if its gonna be hard, then I would never put my child in that sort of position." But our kids would change very little, if anything about their whole experience... and God is in control. He's given them the gift of multi-culturalism and the gift of broad life experiences for His own reasons... We have to do what God calls us to do, and trust him with our families' and our children... God does not let us down.... He is worthy of this kind of trust.

Anyway.. Hilary has been really soaking in the richness of this seminar. Pray for her in the coming months ahead as she will be putting into practice some of the thinking/strategies shown to her in this seminar....

Pray for us... Thursday this week we leave for Cedarville, OH, to pick her up at the end of this seminar. Sunday, we travel to Wheaton, Monday we travel to MN, Wed we travel to Grand Forks, ND, Thursday up to Winnipeg, Manitoba....

Our schedule will be very tight... and we'll be travelling quickly. We will get back to Wheaton in time to move into our new home for the year. We will arrive in time to enroll the boys in their school, about 5 days ahead of time, and the same day the boys start school in Wheaton, Hilary will be starting college at John Brown University....

So life is speeding up for the next month....

Thanks for stopping by,

God Bless,

Tom & Lisa