Moving Forward and other Furlough Idioms

It seems that every furlough we learn new terms or expressions we missed out on when we were oversees. Remember, "Murphy Brown, not"? I can still remember asking, "Who is Murphy Brown and why would someone end a sentence with "not"?

So we are "moving forward" now and I like and understand this expression very well.

Neil is looking to travel to Papua New Guinea and has begun the process of checking flights. He'll coordinate that with our regional director who will visit the ministry among the Mesem, as well as key church leaders in our province and in the nation. Neil is planning to return with 1, 2 and 3 John, and Lord wiling, Jude, just in case he has some "spare time"! After a year away we expect there to be a lot of eating, talking and catching up, Melanesian style, before they get down to the business of studying the translated scriptures.

On the home front Tony continues to pursue basketball with a joyful enthusiasm and I will be working on the New Testament as well as taking speaking opportunities on the weekend. Right now my big computer challenge is to get a file typed in unicode to open with the correct characters when I switch between OpenOffice and Word.

It's been a "journey" which sounds heaps better than saying, "This has been a trip" :) but we know you who have so faithfully prayed for and followed the events that have occurred the closer we have come to completing the scripture, are well aware that it was a truth said in jest when Elyce coined this work, "Frank Peretti Live". At times I have debated whether to chronicle the last four field terms and have concluded that had I not been there, I would probably think the writer was embellishing the story. Not so, it's all true.

As we pray this ministry "home", lets celebrate as we watch the Lord accomplish what we could never do ourselves.
Faithful is He who has called you, who also will do it.