Moving on...

~ There were lots of good-byes today as students left PIBC for the Christmas break. Some, such as Mac, who is hugging our librarian May, have completed their academic work midyear and we won't see them again until May when they return to pick up their BA degrees at graduation.

Some students seemed eager to get home to family -- but many were hanging around as long as we'd let them. A few will stay on campus to help with security and maintenance. I suspect that more would have liked to stay. We have one mission team working in Yap over the break.

In the next picture down some students are just hanging out -- some waiting for rides -- others have already checked out of the dorm to stay with relatives on Guam over the break and are waiting with their friends. Likewise, in the bottom picture some of the students (several graduates) are hanging out with staff waiting for their rides to the airport.

~ Now that the fall semester is over I can start planning the spring. I'll be teaching Introduction to Bible Study Methods on the Guam campus and will be traveling to our teaching facilities in Chuuk and Palau to teach the world religions class (hybrid of intensive classroom and online interaction).

~ The weakened dollar is affecting overseas missionaries in a big way. -- Link

This problem is not really affecting us directly because Guam and Micronesia deal in US dollars.