Your Prayers Were Answered in Wonderful Ways
Thank you for praying for our trip to St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada and back (August 4-15) to help lead Global's latest Candidate Orientation Class. Our 2,300 mile round trip was uneventful, the weather in Canada was perfect, and the orientation was a success on every front.
Global Candidate Class of August 2017
Karen and I made multiple border crossings without incident, didn't leave anyone behind, figured out how to navigate alternate canal crossings (to and from our Canadian office) when the inter-coastal bridges were raised for passing ships, and met each of our core objectives for the event.
Here I am leading Session Two of my three session Partnership 101 presentation.
I led eight sessions related to partnership development, Karen and I led a workshop together, and Karen coordinated/led our Concert of Prayer Wednesday evening. Karen also arranged all the logistics of life and training at our Canadian Office related to in-house snacks, troubleshooting, and behind-the-scenes problem solving. She's the rock on which our orientation hospitality system is built. Yay, Karen!
Karen leads us into Wednesday night's Concert of Prayer.
This was our fourth orientation and it was the best yet. Next week we'll start planning for our orientations in February & August of 2018.
Here I am with Global's President, Brian Albrecht, preparing to distribute certificates of completion to our candidates as part of our closing banquet Friday night.
As part of my role documenting the event...I shot 700 photographs. Here I am taking a photo of missionaries to Ukraine as we have our picture taken by a missionary to Nepal, having his picture of me taking a picture taken by a missionary to France during our field trip to Niagara Falls.
Here's our orientation team debriefing the event Monday morning at our US headquarters in Buffalo, NY: Karen, me, Greg, and Melissa.
There are lots more photos to share! Be watching your inbox and Facebook for our next blog posts!
The sunsets at our retreat house were awesome.
