After authoring about 300 pages worth of material for Western and a million various forms and tests for WorldVenture, it looks like the summer of papers and paperwork is just about over.
I’m in the queue for graduation and looking forward to a focused study of the theology of the Reformers, which I’ve saved for my final class of the degree. Christina and I also knocked out the medical exams for the mission. I think we’re just about done. I can’t wait to go to Colorado for Base Camp (WorldVenture’s training for new appointees) and start fund raising. It will be great to feel like we’re actually getting closer to Budapest!
Excited for you, but sad that you’ll be leaving us soon..it seems!
When does the training start?
Last week of October. We’ll go once the fund raising is done, so it’s pretty much up in the air. Could be a year (or less), could be several years. We were told the average is about 18-24 months.
Terry,
Let me know when you begin the fund raising. I cannot promise a lot, but I can help.
John English
Thank John, very kind of you. We’re expecting to start around Thanksgiving. We’ll take all the prayer we can get as well, and thankfully that’s free to all!
Reformation Theology? That sounds fun. In seminary it all seemed so distant and theoretical, but when I came to Hungary the Reformation seemed more interesting, especially since most Protestant churches and Baptists here have long jettisoned the principles of Sola Fida and Sola Scriptura. I wish I had time to show you an Hungarian Reformed Church in Gyűró that was once a Catholic church. The church converted to Protestantism in the Reformation, but still shows some vestiges of the former Gothic architecture. In the Turkish occupation the poor village suffered much and many of young girls were sold off to Mid-eastern harems never to be seen again. Some say that God brought the Reformation just in time to prepare people for the devastation of an Islamic empire. History may repeat itself, hopefully just the Reformation part. Y’all hurry up and come back!