This past week ended up being something of a blur. Maybe you can relate? Karen worked three days up at the hangar last week. Those three days were very helpful to me as our CEO, Training Manager, and Director of Office Administration were all out of the office.
I spent the bulk of my week working with three of the four families who are raising support to begin service with MMS. Part of my responsibility is to supervise their support raising process. The fourth family is being supervised by MAF-UK. It's exciting to be able to have a direct role in helping them build the relationships necessary in order to serve as missionaries. Thank you for support of us which allows us to train and supervise others in raising their own support.
Recruiting was another main focus of my week. While we don't actively "recruit" folks for MMS (we trust God to lead the right people to us), another of my responsibilities is to facilitate the information flow, and provide direction and counsel, to those around the world who've expressed an interest in serving within mission aviation either as pilot/mechanic or as a maintenance specialist. I'm in contact with about fifteen people in that status right now.
Should that interest turn into opportunity, I'm the one responsible for scheduling and overseeing the application, evaluation, and orientation process for candidates. We currently have two candidate evaluations scheduled: one next week for a couple from Tennessee and one in early September for a couple from California.
In between were the daily meetings, emails, phone calls, tours to lead, photos to take, the MMS blog to write, and a new organizational table-top display to complete.
At Home
We're still adapting to life without Hope (Karen's furry friend of 15 years). While without Hope, we still have the two Cocker Spaniels. And today was their ears, paws, and claws maintenance day. You can imagine how much Tucker and Tanner LOVED that!
We've had some rather serious storms the past few days. No damage, just lots of rain, lightning and thunder. There was a threat of tornadoes but none materialized.
I'd planned to post photos of our garden for several days now but by the time I'd get home on the bicycle, what sun there'd been was lost behind heavy overcast. With the last storm blowing through early this morning, we're enjoying "mostly sunny" conditions right now. Hot, humid, breezy, it finally feels a bit like summer in Ohio. Karen's missing winter, I'm happy as a clam.
So, here are some garden photos to enjoy:
Tall purple things
Day Lilly and tall purple thing
Looking east: Bell peppers and tomatoes.The local bunnies ate two of our pepper plants in the center.
Jalapeno and banana peppers
Looking westIt looks like it's going to be another good year for Karen's Side Street Salza!
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