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
  • get involved
  • fun
  • more contemplation
  • in case you missed it
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Summer, 2018
on... "Come and See"
PictureOur handsome YMCA lifeguard son
Where do we start in our look behind? We start with thanksgiving to God for having enabled us to connect to a warm fellowship in Palestine, TX, and one where our son J.J. feels at home. This wonderful community has taken us all in, opened the floodgates of love on us and now integrated J.J. into their youth projections. At long last we have found the right place suited for him in his maturing years as a young man, a place where he can flourish and be himself outside the shadow of his parent’s wings. We could not be more thrilled at where he is, and where we see him headed, all praise to God Almighty! And yes, he’s lifeguarding as I write.

As for C. and me, well, it’s been a long year behind us full of many ups and downs. We are excited to tell you about all God is doing in our midst; suffice to say we hope to do so in person in the coming months as we head westward from Texas in our RV for the rest of the summer and fall, then southward into southern California for the Winter. We are still in our spiritual posture of ‘Rest and Trust’ as outlined in Isaiah 30:15a, and soon will be finishing up our “Come and See” chapter in keeping with the Johannine motif (John 1:39,46; 4:29; 11:34). This chapter has been one full of surprises in so many ways. Here are a few of the highlights:
  • A brief recall to Colombia to not only complete a few ministry responsibilities, but also repair a fallen roof. Our home there is now rented to a lovely Colombian family
  • An end-of-the year 2017 Caribbean cruise to celebrate my (KR’s) parent’s 60th anniversary, done with all the extended family aboard
  • A birthday party to celebrate my mother’s 80th birthday
  • Training in Chicago for outreach to Muslims
  • Being asked to represent the mission in Richmond, VA at Iniciativa 21, a first among Latinos in N. America for Frontiers
  • Receiving the final sign-off on all Instructor and Coordinator training for Perspectives in el español (Perspectivas)
  • Exploring seminaries and mission schools for future adjunct teaching in Latin America, five cities, four countries [presently I write from Buenos Aires (can you find it in the graphic above) where I am in the midst of exploring various contexts for future short-term adjunct teaching opportunities in our mobilization call for Muslim work… one was in Montevideo, Uruguay last week (can you find it above), one here in Buenos Aires, Argentina and one will be next week up in Asunción, Paraguay (also above). I then head to Bogotá and Medellín, Colombia to explore the last possibility in Medellín at the Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia].​
It has indeed been a full plate since landing in the States last year. We have certainly “come and gone,” here and there, yet have tried to do so in a spirit of “come and see” wherever we could. Our goal is to yet give our greatest contribution to the recruitment, training and mobilizing of Latin American workers to the Muslim world. The Lord continues to speak, guide and direct us as we enter this new season, now as “empty-nesters.” We’re excited for what’s to come. Click here to take a look at what lay ahead for us…


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