PIBC Days

We're having PIBC Days on the Guam campus March 31st-April 2nd. Students and staff have been divided into three teams for several types of competition. There are also special worship services. It's all planned by the students.

We've put a few pictures online

Tim & Melody Plaxton

Melody and Tim are friends from Northern California who are raising support to join the staff of PIBC starting this summer. They've both been out here before. And they're both desperately needed at this point. Melody will be teaching English and Tim will take over the maintenance operation.

(Peter Vaas, the current maintenance guy is from Liebenzell Netherlands. He has been working on a degree at PIBC while overseeing maintenance. He's an excellent student and will graduate in May with a PIBC BA, return to Holland, and start seminary.)

The Plaxtons have raised about 25% of their support and are preparing their house in California (where they've lived for the past 20 years) to go on the market. Pray for them -- that God would provide for their needs and speed them along.

They have a blog at plaxtonsonguam.blogspot.com

CBC alternatives

With the closing of Covenant Bible College there are a lot of people wondering about other options for a one-year intensive discipleship training course. My buddy Glenn Kaiser is suggesting Project 12, which is run by JPUSA.

We could handle a few mainland students at PIBC. While we are a four-year school the focus is very similar to CBC and there is a lot you can cram into a year. It would definitely be a cross-cultural experience (95% of our students are from various Micronesian islands -- almost everyone speaks English as a second language -- and life here is very... ah... island). PIBC is accredited, which makes US financial aid and credit transfer a lot easier.

Eric and Karyn Sorenson will be joining the staff this summer as the second set of Covenant Church missionaries working at the school.