GREENSide Update
  • reflecting a bit
    • Easter 2019: Four ‘D’ Words of The Passion Week
    • Spring 2019: ‘Kingdom of God’ Reflections a Week After
    • Early Winter 2018: Taking a Closer Look at The Advents
    • Late summer 2018: Impressions from the Incapacitated
    • Summer 2018... Confronting Fears
    • Happy New Year 2018 Wishes
    • Christmas 2017 - Reconstructing the Christmas Story
    • Fall 2017... Returning, Rest, Quietness & Trust
    • Summer 2017... Reflecting Pools Matter
    • Spring 2017... The Singularity of God's Kingdom Purposes
    • Winter 4th qtr. 2016... One Foot, Two Feet, Three
    • Fall 2016... Personal Confessions of Mistaken Political Thinking
    • Summer, 2016... Waiting and Listening
    • Resurrection Sunday, 2016
    • Winter 1st qtr, 2016... The Marrakesh Declaration
    • Christmas 2015 Greeting
    • End of Year, 2015... Are We To Care?
    • Spring 2015... What are you and I doing about it?
    • New Year's Day 2015... New Mercies Never End!
    • Christmas/New Year 2014/15... Holiday, Holiday, What have you done?
    • Fall 2014... On Kingdoms... Past, Present and Ethereal
    • Spring 2014... Didascalicon: Man, God and Greatness
    • Christmas 2013... Even in the Air and Space
    • Winter 2013/14... Callings
    • Christmas 2012... 'Jumping Beans' in old age
    • Spring 2012... New Beginnings
    • Fall 2011... People of Promise
  • a look behind
    • Spring 2019: ...Off the Starting Blocks
    • Early Winter 2018: Sabbatical Results and First Furlough Leg
    • Summer 2018... "Come and See"
    • Summer 2017... Making Full Circle
    • Spring 2017... Completing Pre-furlough Commitments
    • Fall 2016, JJ's New California Home!
    • Summer 2016... Accomplishing Significant Milestones
    • End of year, 2015: Building God's Kingdom Among the Middle East Unengaged Muslims
    • Summer 2015... Building Deeply in Small Ways
    • Christmas 2013 photos
    • Winter 2013/14... Up and Running!
    • Winter 2012... 'Global Impact 29', first steps
    • Fall 2011... A great school; A promising alliance
  • a look ahead
    • Spring 2019: Finishing Touches to a Special Furlough
    • Early Winter 2018: Expanding to New Beginnings
    • Summer 2018... Winding Around the Country
    • Summer 2017... Three Decades and Counting
    • Spring 2017... My Upcoming Two Greatest Decades
    • Winter 4th qtr. 2016... Our Upcoming Furlough, Part Two
    • Summer 2016... Our Upcoming Furlough, Part One
    • Early Winter 2016
    • Summer 2015... Looking to Remember the Middle East
    • Winter 2013/14... The West heads East
    • Winter 2012... Coming out, going deeper
    • Fall 2011... Getting and Giving 'Perspectives'
  • prayer
    • Spring 2019
    • Early Winter 2018
    • Late summer 2018
    • Summer 2018
    • Fall 2017
    • Spring, 2017
    • Winter 4th qtr. 2016
    • Fall, 2016
    • End of year, 2015
    • Summer 2015
    • Why pray?
    • Winter 2013/14
    • Winter 2012
    • Fall 2011
  • finances
    • Spring 2019
    • Early Winter 2018
    • Summer 2018
    • Winter 4th qtr. 2016... Year-end giving
    • Fall, 2016
    • End of year, 2015
    • Summer 2015
    • Winter 2013/14
    • Winter 2012
    • Fall 2011
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  • fun
  • more contemplation
  • in case you missed it
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Spring, 2017
on... Completing Pre-furlough Commitments
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Last Christmas 2016 was our first Christmas with C's family in nineteen years, and the first Christmas for our family of three in the United States ever! It's hard to believe, but it's true. One of her sisters remarked, "It was the best Christmas I can remember in years!" and we couldn't agree more. 

We had come up from Colombia in December on what we thought would be a one-year furlough only to have it cut short on account of our need to be back in Colombia for significant ministry break-throughs. This 'call to return' produced an interesting dilemma for us as we found ourselves already committed to various events spanning the many miles from California to Texas to Kansas - commitments already made in anticipation of our furlough. We welcomed these opportunities that have only now, as of this April writing, been completed... teaching an Islamic Awareness seminar, teaching an all-day Evangelism and Church Growth seminar, presenting two lessons at two different locations of the Spanish "Perspectives on the World Christian Movement" course (I taught Lesson Seven both times for those who might be 'in the know' regarding the course; for those not check this out... http://www.perspectives.org), sharing at an opening ceremony for a new emerging Latin American pastoral association and preaching God's Word on several occasions, to name only a few. Beyond all this God has surprised us with a plethora of divine appointments and open doors that have left us not only gaping at the mouth in wonderment, but also excited for our upcoming year-long furlough. Until that time we are still needing to return to Colombia as soon as possible provided we're able to adequately address some recently emerged family challenges that need prayer [click here to pray]. All in all we are thrilled with the results of these last three months and look forward to how they might fit into what we hope will be a genuine full-bodied furlough commencing later this year 2017.

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Teaching "Perspectivas del Movimiento Cristiano Mundial" at the Seminario BĂ­blico Rio Grande, Edinburg, TX

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