Heading Into The New Week

It was a cold weekend with a bit of snow lingering from Friday and a few flurries Saturday and Sunday. With the sun being out all day today and the temps back up in the low 30's, all the streets are clear and dry and the vast majority of the snow has already melted. Though it looks like we could get a fresh dusting overnight. We'll see. Temps are expected to climb back into the high 40's later this week. It's been a crazy "winter" so far.

After spending Thursday and Friday working at the hangar, Karen spent today focused on managing our affairs on the home front. Finances, laundry, and house cleaning accounted for most of her time though she was able to meet with a local group of ladies for fellowship and encouragement.

As I type this blog, she's studying continuing education materials to keep her both her Pennsylvania and Ohio nursing licenses current. She just completed a course on "Ectopic Pregnancy" and has started working on a course titled, "Folic Acid." Now doesn't THAT just grab you? Even though she's not working in the nursing field right now, it's important to keep options open, and staying current provides some additional opportunities for service should the right short-term medical mission opportunity present itself. Karen would like to go on a medical mission overseas.

Me? I spent the day locked on my computer up at MMS. Communicating with candidate families raising support, developing relationships and providing counsel to people interested in possibly serving with MMS, handling emails from around the world, editing newsletters for our missionary families, answering the phones and trying to wrap my head around some unfamiliar immigration policy/procedures related to our international apprentices pretty much filled my day. I also completed a prayer card project for one of our families, administered performance reviews to two of our six apprentices, met briefly with several of our staff to discuss various topics, and consumed a pot of Seattle's Best coffee: #5 dark roast.

While I didn't shoot any video today, here's a photo of me shooting video footage last week that I used in the "Engine Work: Double Trouble" clip featured in our previous blog post. Josh, thanks for the snapshot! Josh is the supervisor for the engine work I was documenting.

Keith shoots video for the "Engine Work: Double Trouble" MMS video feature.

That's me in the khaki slacks and sweater vest. And yes, I was wearing sweater vests ($5 up at Zink's Fabric in Berlin, OH) long before Rick Santorum made them a political fashion statement. Go Rick!