Thank you so much for your prayers. Our Strategic Planning was great. Our focus is really to complete some of the things we have gotten started so that they can be completed and then we can move on to new opportunities that we have. We actually have more details still to work out but we have the bulk of our points put together.

We also worked through the Birkman exam, which is a type of personality profile test that helps teams better understand how to work together. One of the top five reasons missionaries leave the field is because of interpersonal conflicts within their team (not cultural differences) and since the eDOT team is growing, we felt this was the best time to begin looking at how we work together. It was very interesting to see the differences we each had and we had a lot of “Ahhhh” moments. You know, when the test would say something about someone and everyone would go “Ahhhh, that’s why they act that way”.

Afterwards, we did a team retreat to the Swiss Alps where we did some more team building times. You can see that I had some fun with my camera here in the Photo Album.

Again, thanks for your prayers and please keep them coming - there’s a lot to do to here in Europe.