• Good news -- two of the PIBC short-terms are working on becoming longer termers. Mary Lou Carruthers has been here from the California gold country for a few weeks helping us work on IT issues. And now she is trying to figure out if there is a way she can work it out to telecommute from Guam and volunteer with PIBC half time or so on a more permanent basis.
Kathy Newell, from Flagstaff, Arizona, has been with us this semester helping with English and education classes. She's trying to figure out if she can come back next semester to help out on the Tol campus in Chuuk.
We're so encouraged -- not only because of answered prayer but because both of these women seem to fit in so well. They're both people that we'd love to be around -- anywhere on the planet.
• Dave and Wendy Mark have been good friends since our days at Fuller Seminary. They are based in Miami, but as regional coordinators of Covenant Missions in Latin America they travel extensively. Dave now has a blog -- which will become a regular read for me. Also, he has started posting some of his writing, including what I consider to be the absolutely best orientation guide for short-term mission trips -- "On Someone Else's Terms." (.pdf)
• A PhD student has done the math. Switching to daylight savings time may be actually increasing rather than decreasing energy usage. -- Link
A little extra gratuitous information -- Guam is one of the few places in the US (well, at least sorta' in the US) which doesn't switch to daylight savings. We pretty much have 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness year round because we're just 13° north of the equator. We figured out that there was nothing gained by playing with the clock.
• I have a new blogging venture which really has absolutely nothing directly to do with missions (other than that it is a sort of "tent-making" project) or Micronesians (except that Micronesians eat citrus, too) -- crazy4citrus.com
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