This has been a busy month. Mary and I went to Singapore for a week at the beginning of the month. I had the privilege of officiating a wedding for two good friends and former members of the Highrock College group. Ken and Hui were integral parts of our ministry in Boston, and it was great to see them and be a part of this special day. After Singapore, we flew back through Hong Kong and spent two days sight-seeing. Derek…
Oh, how I love them! I just dropped of a friend, Gerald Wu, at the airport today. He’s a Singaporean college student who just finished up a semester as an exchange student at the University of Minnesota. We were introduced over email by a mutual friend. Gerald happily jumped on board with our church plant and helped us in a number of ways to get our community off the ground. He participated at our Community Life Gatherings. He helped me…
Mary and I just got back from New York. We spent the past three days visiting friends in New Jersey and New York. Then On Sunday night, I officiated a wedding for a good college friend. Here are some pictures. The bottom pictures were taken from our hotel room of ground zero. We were directly across the street from it, and we looked down on all the construction activity. It was cool to see how big the foot print was,…
We just got back from a great vacation down in Sanibel, FL. My parents spend some time down their every year, and they invited us to join them for a little while. Mary spent about a week down there, and I was down there for about three days. Not as long as I would have liked, but still extremely restful and relaxing. Some of the highlights: Spending time with family. I got to spend a lot of time playing…
Some of Mary’s closest friends spent the past few days visiting with us. The girls were a part of a small group together while we were back in Boston on the seminary campus. They have all since gotten married, and their husbands came with them on this visit. There were four couples including Mary and me, and our kids as well. They arrived last Thursday afternoon, and we immediately headed up to my parents’ cabin in Northern Wisconsin on Love…