Countdown to Ukraine
This coming Sunday morning will be my 12th speaking engagement in my 6 week trip to the States. I remember telling friends in Ukraine before I left that because of how fast things are changing in Ukraine these days that it was likely that my presentation would change from week to week. And in some ways it has.
I could probably write a blog about each speaking engagement. I've spoken in churches that I previously had no relationship with and I've spoken in churches that have been really important in my spiritual formation. This weekend I'll speak at Bayou View Baptist Church in Gulfport where I was the Associate Pastor and Student Minister for more than 12 years. A few weeks ago I spoke at Holly Bluff Baptist Church near my junior high and high school hometown and saw schoolmates I haven't seen in 30+ years! I've spoken mornings and nights, Sundays and Wednesdays, to adults and to youth and children.
I've seen a lot of friends but not all of them by a long shot. I never was at any one place more than 2-3 days so it was hard to get settled.
It's been fun. I've driven about 4000 miles and I'm not as tired as I feel like I should be. The first two weeks back in Ukraine look a lot more tiring to me right now. I will return next Thursday but I will need to meet and escort three summer interns from Budapest to Uzhgorod over a 2-3 week period beginning less than a week after I get back.
I think in one of the next blogs I'll touch on one or two of those speaking engagements in more detail. Today, at this very moment I'm sitting in The Country Fisherman, a seafood/catfish buffet in Prentiss, MS waiting on one of those lifelong friends. I'll spend the night tonight and then I'm headed to the MS Coast tomorrow.
This coming Sunday morning will be my 12th speaking engagement in my 6 week trip to the States. I remember telling friends in Ukraine before I left that because of how fast things are changing in Ukraine these days that it was likely that my presentation would change from week to week. And in some ways it has.
I could probably write a blog about each speaking engagement. I've spoken in churches that I previously had no relationship with and I've spoken in churches that have been really important in my spiritual formation. This weekend I'll speak at Bayou View Baptist Church in Gulfport where I was the Associate Pastor and Student Minister for more than 12 years. A few weeks ago I spoke at Holly Bluff Baptist Church near my junior high and high school hometown and saw schoolmates I haven't seen in 30+ years! I've spoken mornings and nights, Sundays and Wednesdays, to adults and to youth and children.
I've seen a lot of friends but not all of them by a long shot. I never was at any one place more than 2-3 days so it was hard to get settled.
It's been fun. I've driven about 4000 miles and I'm not as tired as I feel like I should be. The first two weeks back in Ukraine look a lot more tiring to me right now. I will return next Thursday but I will need to meet and escort three summer interns from Budapest to Uzhgorod over a 2-3 week period beginning less than a week after I get back.
I think in one of the next blogs I'll touch on one or two of those speaking engagements in more detail. Today, at this very moment I'm sitting in The Country Fisherman, a seafood/catfish buffet in Prentiss, MS waiting on one of those lifelong friends. I'll spend the night tonight and then I'm headed to the MS Coast tomorrow.
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