Time flies

Suddenly you realize:

too many weeks have passed already without writing and now there is so much to tell!!

So, what do you do? Let me try giving an overview:

• Last blog we closed with the globalisation issue at bible school. When you read this the students already did their exams. Before that the discussions continued and globalisation appeared to be more present than they had realised before. Interestingly enough the younger students had more 'feeling' with this subject than the older ones. Well, in the end, they all passed their exams.
• In the beginning of May my Mission Commission colleagues visited Rotterdam for a 4 and a half day staff meeting. It always is so good meeting each other face to face. You should know that usually we only meet 'virtual', through Internet - video conferences. A few days together helps to encourage each other and to have some more time discussing matters more in-depth. Of course the Mission Commission Consultation planned for October / November this year was one of the major issues to be discussed.
• Another time consuming, but grateful activity was the preparatory work on Connections, the journal of the Mission Commission. This time a double issue and it deals with "Mission in Contexts of Suffering, Violence, Persecution and Martyrdom" A 'heavy' theme, but very needed to pay attention to. It also will be one of the topics during the coming consultation. By the way: do you know that we now have a special website for Connections? If you like to look at it, just click here.
• Further most of the work was focussed on work related to the consultation. Thinks related to logistics, registrations, contacts with possible participants and so on. Sometimes this correspondence led to 130 mails on one day, so "it keeps me off the street"

Hopefully next message will follow soon, otherwise: just send me a reminder :-)