Today was a half day for us. We sang worship songs together and one of the ABWE staff encouraged us with a message from the Bible.
We had two training sessions: Missionary Family and Finding Your Niche.
Missionary Family.
There were some important encouragements from Ron Washer about protecting and nurturing your family at all times. ABWE leaders have stressed over and over how critical healthy marriages and families are to the mission. It's realy true for all believers: Our families are our first priority.
One caution they provided is that in the business of pre-field children can begin to feel marginalized. The encouraged us to purposefuly set aside a time for family to have fun together every week. We should guard it, and treet it as a critical committment. We've already set aside a night for Marge to have a break each week. Marge and I already make a point of spending special time with each of our children, but a set aside family fun night would be cool.
Finding Your Niche, was about the unique and important role of women in both the Bible accounts as well as in missions. The session also described how families can serve as an encouragement to single missionaries.
After lunch, Marge and I went for a short hike in a local state forest, and then had dinner at a steak restaurant. Later that night I practiced with the worship team that will be playing at Missionary Enrichment Conference.
Then it was about 9pm, and Marge and I still felt like doing something else for fun, but didn't want to go out anywhere. So we rented a DVD and watched it on the laptop. That was fun. We both needed to unwind.
Adam
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