Planning

There been some rumors going around that the Menefees are moving back to KY, and I'm sorry to disappoint you, but it looks like we're going to be staying in KS for several more years.

It's my fault the rumor got out. I've been weighing a number of options over the past few months. I was thinking about moving back and going to Asbury College and Seminary, but this is the latest plan.

I hope to:

• Finish my Associates Degree in Missions (KCCBS) this spring ('08)
• Take an internship to Asia this Summer ('08)
• Complete my Bachelors in Management and Human Relations (MNU's evening classes one night a week) the following spring ('09)
• Then, on to Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies (NTS, and God only knows how long that will take).

I don't have all the details, and not everyone agrees with me. But I'm okay with that. I feel like I'm going in the direction God wants, and I would be wrong to do anything different. I don't mind that the goal is unclear.

I used to have no desire to go to seminary. One of my excuses was that I would spend years learning to separate myself from the world when I could be working a secular job and reaching the lost without a lofty education. But a friend said something the other day that killed that excuse. He was quoting someone that said if he knew Christ was coming back in ten years, he would spend the first five years training to make the last five profoundly more productive.