Good Bye 2008!

A trip to Germany and Spain. Moving 2700 miles. The skyrocketing neice/nephew count. Becoming a student again. 2008 was an amazing year!

Now that I'm a student I doubt 2009 will match this past year for momentous events, but you never know. I thought I'd take this opportunity to inform ya'll of Pam and my plans for this year.

The biggest event of our year will likely be a cross-cultural internship this summer. It's our hope that Pam will be able to join me on this 5-week missions trip. With the economy being so poor we need to decide if her being with me for the entire five weeks is worth risking her job not being here when we get back. We have several contingency plans and I'll let you all know what we plan on doing in a couple weeks.

We also hope to visit the northwest this year. We really miss all our friends and family in Lynden, Vancouver and Terrace and we know that if we know our best chance for a long trip out to see ya'll is this summer.

Thanks for making 2008 a memorable year!

Personality Type

Last week I took a personality test for my small group. I've done these things before and they haven't been very accurate, so I went into it with some skepticism. This was actually pretty good though.

1. Try it out at www.humanmetrics.com
   
2. Get some analysis of your results at www.personalitypage.com

It turns out I'm ENTJ and Pam is ISFJ. I think that makes us a pretty good combo.

Let me know what you are in a comment.

Nigeria

A good friend of mine from school named John Eigege shared some disturbing news today in our small group. John is from the Nigerian city of Jos, which lies on the unofficial border between the northern, predominantly Muslim region and the southern, predominantly Christian regions of the country.

There was recently an election in the area and in Nigeria, elections are often followed by turmoil. In this case a Christian won the election and many of the muslims in the city are claiming the election was fixed and illegitimate. This has quickly escalated into violence and hundreds of people have already died. John's family has been forced from their home and many of his relatives fear for their lives. Understandably, John is very upset about being so far away from his family while they endure these terrible events.

Please pray for the people in Jos, that the Holy Spirit would miraculously intervene, and that the violence will stop soon.