It's been two weeks since we left Belgium. (Funny how one measures time from dates of departure in a life like this). It seems far away, for sure.
I spent last week at our favorite conference center in Rwanda with all of our Seed team reunited for the first time since the beginning of April! (Mark spent it in Kinshasa.) It was a special time to be back together with our little "family", and Serge and I were very pleased with the success - no drama, good conversations, everyone got along, we fit all of the meetings in and got to sleep some too!
Our current supervisors, Area Directors Ben and Beth Weisbrod, joined us for a day, and Ben took some really great photos, such as this one.
Beth said I was like a proud mother hen watching Ben take the picture, trying to get everyone to smile. ;) Seven out of eight is pretty good, right? (It's not the first instinct for most Africans to smile for photos.)
Thank you to those who prayed for our travel and for my health. I was feeling awful last Sunday and stressed, knowing that I had a very full week of long workdays. I was feeling better by Tuesday mid-day, and I enjoyed swimming in the lake a few times, too. Here's Ben's good work capturing Serge and me in the bright sunshine with the photo lens.
Some highlights were a really deep conversation about the fine line between generosity and corruption, a really fun TALENT SHOW in which I yodeled and the guys did a skit about the Seed interviews (and all of our challenges with skype and with language), and a boat ride + hike out to "Napoleon's Hat" island in Lake Kivu. Here's my picture of the team at the top.
I've got a lot of work to do after all of the conversations we had. Loose ends to tie up, conversations to follow up on, emails to write to ask questions or remind people of various tasks, etc. Serge is on vacation for two weeks, so I'm leading the charge here in Eastern Congo.
I'm also looking forward to our church retreat next weekend. A retreat where I get to be just a participant.
I've got a post brewing about why we're here, why I'm doing this, but it's not ready yet, so I'll just leave it at that. This week, I loved my job.
I spent last week at our favorite conference center in Rwanda with all of our Seed team reunited for the first time since the beginning of April! (Mark spent it in Kinshasa.) It was a special time to be back together with our little "family", and Serge and I were very pleased with the success - no drama, good conversations, everyone got along, we fit all of the meetings in and got to sleep some too!
Our current supervisors, Area Directors Ben and Beth Weisbrod, joined us for a day, and Ben took some really great photos, such as this one.
Thank you to those who prayed for our travel and for my health. I was feeling awful last Sunday and stressed, knowing that I had a very full week of long workdays. I was feeling better by Tuesday mid-day, and I enjoyed swimming in the lake a few times, too. Here's Ben's good work capturing Serge and me in the bright sunshine with the photo lens.
I've got a lot of work to do after all of the conversations we had. Loose ends to tie up, conversations to follow up on, emails to write to ask questions or remind people of various tasks, etc. Serge is on vacation for two weeks, so I'm leading the charge here in Eastern Congo.
I'm also looking forward to our church retreat next weekend. A retreat where I get to be just a participant.
I've got a post brewing about why we're here, why I'm doing this, but it's not ready yet, so I'll just leave it at that. This week, I loved my job.
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