So the January 2008 Discipleship Training School draws to a close with debriefing finishing yesterday, and a commencement dinner and celebration two nights ago. After doing a bit of cleaning this morning, the eleven remaining students will leave us for their next destinations over the next four days. At present, we’re also hosting a team of 27 from a youth group in Manitoba, and with many of our colleagues accommodating them logistically, I’ll be making nearly all of the airport runs over the weekend and thereby having the opportunity of the final goodbyes!

We’ve been blessed to have colleagues Emmanuel and Janice Entee over from YWAM Harpenden in England this week to help with the creative mission of debriefing our DTS staff and students and help them prepare for the immediate future. They have so much experience to share from their years in YWAM and their relationship with God that has been quite a boon to our community. For Renee and I, it’s been nice to have someone to pray with us and someone from the outside of YWAM Northern Ireland to talk with. We’re really grateful for the variety of different persons walking God’s green earth.

Renee and I are looking forward to a couple months of being able to catch up on preparing for the fall DTS and catch up on ourselves and our first year of marriage. The past few months have been really hard, and we need some time to regroup. The fall DTS, which I’m leading, is less than three months away.