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Movie inspires viewers to keep dreaming! Last week, we watched The Astronaut Farmer. The movie made me think about dreams and creativity. A few years ago, I read John Maxwell’s Thinking for a Change, which includes a sad survey on the state of our creativity. The survey reveals that as we age, we become less … Read more
We have been approved for the adoption of a child from a foreign country by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Yesterday we received Form I-797C (all government forms seem to have form numbers!) from the office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of the Department of Homeland Security. The form simply grants us … Read more
We got our proposal edits back; now we must make lots of corrections! Last week we received our proposal drafts back from the editor at Asbury. Even though our mentor describes our work as “clean” (in terms of writing, grammar, etc.), there is still a lot of red! (Thanks, Judy! 😀 ). The red marks … Read more
Fasting is an overlooked ancient spiritual discipline that helps Christ-followers grow spiritually. I grew up in a tradition where fasting was an observed discipline. I grew up hearing stories of men and women who fasted, anywhere from one day to days at a time. In recent years, Joleen and I have been practicing the Wesley … Read more
Friday night’s Twila Paris concert with the World Vision Korea Children’s Choir was a great experience! Twila Paris’ concert tour came to Huntingdon, PA last night. We enjoyed hearing her sing some of her classic songs, including, “The Warrior is a Child,” “We Bow down,” and “He is Exalted,” as well as a couple songs … Read more
Football and leadership — learning leadership from coaches in the NFL. I have been a football fan since I was about 8 years old when I watched a game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers. From that point on, I was a Cowboys’ fan. Over the course of the years, however, I … Read more
Our proposal hearings have been scheduled for the last week of September in Wilmore, KY. Finally, we have our proposal hearings scheduled at Asbury. Randy’s will be Monday, 24 September 2007 and Joleen’s will be Wednesday, 26 September 2007. We’ll leave following a special, annual gathering of both of our charges (we get to do … Read more
A thumbnail sketch of the rest of the dissertation journey. We just posted an Adoption Timeline so we thought now we’ll post what the timeline looks like for finishing our dissertations. Our proposal hearings are currently being scheduled at the D.Min. office at Asbury. They’re expected to be in late September. Between now and then … Read more
We’ve been given a general idea about what the timeline for adoption might look like! Earlier this week, we received a response from AIAA, giving some kind of idea about what to expect, in terms of a timeline for the rest of the adoption process. We initiated the process last January with the general expectation … Read more
Gathering information on South Korea, the place from where we’re adopting a child. As we posted earlier, We’re on the waiting list for adoption from South Korea. We thought we’d share some links of sites with information about South Korea. Information: NationalGeographic.com US Department of State CIA BBC Travel Guides: Lonely Planet Tour2Korea Also, check … Read more