THE JOURNEY SO FAR

Ruth and I are trying to land and take off at the same time. It's kind of interesting.

I also worked with the Kandern Evangelical church to provide music for a special outreach week they were hosting.

Ruth's already been to Barcelona and back for a week of training on the use of mapping software she and the eMRG group have to provide churches with visual help in understanding their regions.

Friday I head to Brussels for an arts conference called Imagine, where I'll get a chance to meet dozens of Christians from the arts world, and getting a chance to stretch the vision of how creativity and ministry can work together.

And then next week is the big push to pull together the music for a week long outreach we'll be doing in Warsaw with Polish church planter Kzrystof Zareba. Our original band Carton Jaune will be performing at special events to promote the needs of the disabled with "Joni and Friends" and sharing the Gospel each night in the surrounding bedroom communities of Warsaw where there are currently NO witnessing fellowships.

OK, that's the landing part.

But we're also preparing for our move to Ireland by going through all our stuff, selling off a lot of our furniture, and have put our house on the market so we can move as soon as possible. We've gotten word that one of the couples we've been talking with about GEM has been asked to attend the candidate orientation in a couple of weeks and are also in conversation via email with others, especially artists, feeling the call to serve.

Keep us in your prayers.