We’re up at CMS Summer School in Katoomba this week. It’ currently Wednesday afternoon and we’re on our afternoon break. This has probably been the best conference I’ve been on since EU Annual Conferences during uni. We’ve heard Don Carson speak on 1 Peter, whichhsa been great – the overall theme has been, essentially, holiness. The talks over the last couple of days have primarily concerned suffering and specific outworkings of holiness. It’s been good.

Apart from that, the best things have been catching up with people that I haven’t seen since uni and finding out what we’ve been up to, especially ministry-wise, and hearing from a number of missionaries about their experiences, challenges and work in a number of countries around the world. This has included hearing about their experiences related to some specific topics, such as Economic Rationalim, using their homes for hospitality and ministry and the work of spouses wihout an ‘official’ job description.

We’re looking foward still to the next few days and we’ll write more when we get back to Canberra.

Oh yeah – and we had a good time over Christmas and New Years as well.