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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Winter 4th qtr. 2016
on... Our Upcoming Furlough, Part Two
Both the Summer and Fall are now distant memories. We were waiting for a number of  ‘next-move’ confirmations which are now etched in stone. We fly out of Colombia next week (12/15) only to return back to Colombia in four months not having begun our much coveted approved one-year furlough. “How did this happen” you ask? Two reasons. First, we are committed to travel to the USA for four months on account we have five confirmed teaching events we must now carry through… events we really would not want to miss anyway as they are all quite important in God’s Kingdom economy... events ranging from ‘Engaging Muslims’ and ‘Evangelism’ talks in California to teaching two ‘Perspectives on the World Christian Movement’ lessons in Texas in the emerging nationwide ‘Hispanic Perspectives’ network for which I am a licensed instructor. We will also do what we can to raise much-needed financial support throughout our travels, a reality that must change if we are to continue our work abroad (clic here for more info).

We must return to Colombia in April of next year where K. will teach a long-anticipated ‘Introduction to Islām’ course in the admired Seminario Bíblico de Colombia Fundación Universitaria located in beautiful Medellín, Colombia. Yes, back to our beloved Medellín for six weeks. We look forward to not only engaging students at the academic level on this important subject, but also challenging them at both spiritual and volitional levels as we anticipate special times of prayer for them. We will also practice prayer for the unengaged Muslim peoples of the world. We simply could not pass up this exceptional invitation, sensing before God the need therefore to suspend our upcoming furlough until later 2017. We know this will affect many of you anticipating a visit from us next year, but we sense urgency in this invitation in light of the ongoing global purposes of God

Furthermore, there have now emerged six tentative speaking engagements across the northern coast of Colombia that will more than likely take us from Medellín all the way to the most northern tip of Colombia, La Guajira, adding yet more time in terms of months in Colombia before we are able to embark on what will inevitably be a late 2017 furlough. We don’t see how we can do things any differently. We’re not completely sure when it will be that we actually make it to the USA to begin our heart's desire to deepen relationships, form new ministry partners and rest in the Lord through a furlough, but this is all in the Lord’s hands for now. We welcome prayer and words of encouragement for us in our next steps.
He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way, Psalm 25:9.

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