With all the craziness [see previous post], we haven’t gotten to post our new Newsletter… until now. Enjoy!

We have our tickets to fly out of Houston on September 3rd…and so the countdown officially has begun. We’ll be doing a lot of things in the next 5 weeks and covering a lot of ground…

7/28 My Birthday, the big 27. We’re in Tulsa, OK for our friends Amy & Doran’s wedding!

7/29 Our one-year anniversary! We’ll drive to Stillwater, OK, then on to OKC spending time with good friends before we leave.

7/31-8/4 Denton, TX

8/1 Paul’s Birthday, one year older than me.

8/5-8/10 the ATX

8/11-9/3 Friendswood, TX

8/14 We’ll drop off all the stuff we’re shipping to Greece at the port of Houston, it will ride for 5 weeks or so on a boat :o)

9/3 3:30 pm depart from Intercontinental Airport in Houston! and we’re off!

Today was the end of the cross-cultural training aspect of our summer training. Next week we will have a few days of training will all the Campus Crusade staff before we head home. So that means that, as of today, we’re graduates of Crusade’s Cross-Cultural ministry training!

We were also informed today that we have been accepted as students to the National and Capodostrian University of Athens, into their Modern Greek department! This is a big step toward our obtaining a visa, so it’s a big deal. Get your #2 pencils ready!

Please pray for our final steps in obtaining a visa to Greece. We are getting close, but Greece is a notoriously hard country within which to obtain a visa. We need God to provide a way for us to be in the country long-term without issues. Thanks for praying!

This weekend here in Fort Collins, CO we enjoyed the company of my mom Shirley and my sister Teresa. They were in town for the X-Track [that’s the name of the cross-cultural training we’re doing this summer, fyi] Family Weekend. We ate some great Colorado food, and learned more about how to handle family relationships between Texas and Athens. It’s not like you can just pop in for dinner whenever you happen to be in town, or anything.

We had some great conversations, and all-in-all it was a wonderful weekend.

Our training here is drawing to a close on Wednesday, and then we have a little break before our semi-annual staff conference begins on July 15.