Realignment

I must complete this task shortly. August 9, 2008 there will be an announcement to our entire Church constituency of the new person taking on the role of Field Director for Western Central, and Eastern Africa. So re-alignment of priorities, time and creativeness will be my task. For fourty seven years I have been full-time in the ministry, serving through the Church of God. The last twenty years of this have been with the World Missions Department while serving in Africa. I will never be the same. The urgency to spread the gospel is still within me. I will continue to pray for Africa. I will continue to go there and preach when possible. However, my time of rest has come. God has wonderfully provided for me and I look forward to the new challenges that are before me.

What will I be doing? First, what will I NOT be doing? I will not be coming to the office each day (Monday through Friday) when I am not out of town. I will not be dealing with administrative headaches such as revoking credentials, auditing projects, presenting budgets to the board, raising budget money, answering official questions and officials questions about the work in Africa, promoting missions in our local churches, representing missions at our Schools and Colleges, etc. and etc. and I'm sure you don't want to read the long list under the job description.

So - what will I be doing? I will resting some at "Pumzika Acres" (my cabin in the mountains), visiting friends, loving my children and grandchildren, reading, writing, putting together some videos and some cd's, encouraging whenever and wherever I can. And, who knows what else the Lord has in store? O.K.