Getting the Mission up and running

We have spent our first full week in the office. It is amazing how much 'stuff' there is to do to get started. One thing we are doing very well is accumulating a large data base of people, churches, schools, etc. that are wanting to do short term mission trips. The hard part now is getting the missionaries in the field to request these trips. Communications with missionaries in the field are good in some areas and poor in others. I have communicated with missionaries in Peru, Taiwan and Bosnia who have some interest but right now they are not sure as to when they will need the trips. On 29 and 30 October we are participating in a 'webinar' from Team Expansion International Services headquarters. This is a web based training that all missionaries with internet service can participate and actually see us in the office. We will announce our new position and 'get the word out' to literally hundreds of missionaries in the field on that day.

We are also participating in 3 conferences in the next month. Missi will be in Pittsburg, PA on Oct 29 - Nov 1 for a Youth Leaders conference; On Nov 13-15 we will both be at the Global Missions Health Conference at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville; and on Nov 20-23 we will be in Tulsa, OK for the National Missionary Convention. We will certainly make lots of contacts at these conventions and probably build up our data base of people wanting to go on trips even more.

Missi is still working hard on her Master's Degree in Intercultural communications and I am in my last semester at CCU for my degree in Ministry and Leadership. I will be done in February (with God's help).

Be sure to visit the web site often. I am beginning to blog more often and I am going to add a devotional page. Missi and I are constantly getting information at these classes and conferences that make great devotional material. So she told me to start putting it on the web site.

That is all for now. Please keep praying for our ministry and thank you for all your support.

Tim