Budapest, Technology, Packing and Thad

Seeing the packed boxes stacked neatly brings warmth to my heart. Why? Packed boxes mean we are leaving soon. Jana has done a wonderful job organizing and packing all of our things. It is fortunate that Jana is gifted with this skill since tomorrow morning, she will be holding down the fort for nearly 2 and a half weeks. With that in mind, Jana needs much prayer as she is tackling the packing and the remainder of our support while I am gone.

Now, where am I going, you ask?

Budapest will be my home from Friday September 8th (well, actually the 10th but I will count travel time) until Sunday, September 24th. I get back home Monday the 25th after a stop in Kandern!

Three meetings are in store for me and a few others in Budapest, the home of our Eastern European ministries. The first is a Trainers meeting. The focus of this 4 days will be teaching us how to train others on general computer skills, such as Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. We will not be learning about those things but we will learn how to use simple techniques to train others effectively.

The second meeting will be the GTL, Global Technology Leadership. This is the same meeting that I attended in Thailand last December. They also met in the Spring, but I was not able to make that one. We will be discussing many things having to do with a concept of building capacity. One way to look at that is how can we take the same number of people and do more with them. The training is part of that.

Last is an Operations meeting. I am not as familiar with what we will be talking about for that one but I believe it will be a meeting between people of many aspects of running a ministry (or company), which would include computers, accounting, human resources, etc. I am looking forward to that time. I believe it will be quite large, nearly a 100 people.

Check back during the meetings, as I hope to give several updates on what is going on!!