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Hi again,

It is Thursday evening now. Yesterday morning I met with Pastor Saroj and his assistant pastor in order to plan for a pastors seminar next year. He asked if I would teach mainly from the Book of Nehemiah, which is a great resource for leadership themes. So, we planned some tentative dates and I will confirm them once I look at my calendar for 2024. Yesterday evening I went to the campus of the Calvary Chapel Bible College of Kathmandu for their mid-week Bible study. I met the directors, Pankaj and Tonielle back in 2015 at the CC Missions Conference in Thailand, and we have kept in touch since then. In fact, they were recently in the states and came up to Washington and we had lunch together in Silverdale. Anyway, it was great to be with them here. While at their campus, I met a wonderful couple, missionaries who live in Medford, Oregon. Their story is similar to mine: he served as a pastor for 40 years and was then led to do missions work, training leaders in other nations, now devoting his ministry efforts to that. Their names are Mike and Lisa, and we had such a great time of fellowship. I hope that our paths cross again. I know I will keep in touch with them. Upon leaving, I became aware that many of the people there knew me. I wondered why? Well, last October I was in Kathmandu and was invited to participate in a Marriage Retreat, and many of the people in attendance last night were at that retreat! The evening ended all too soon, I was really enjoying conversing with them all.

The past 2 days have been all I could have expected as we had pastors seminars at Harvest Church, where Pastor Satis hosted this great event. There were pastors from all over the area, as well as several pastors of Harvest Church branch churches. I taught each day for approximately 3 hours, and the sessions were followed by Q&A, with some thoughtful questions. We expected 50 each day but there were considerably more the first day, with even more the second day. What a great group, so attentive and engaged in the teachings. The worship and corporate prayer times were rich and inspiring. I love the worship band, young college-aged kids who put in a lot of practice and are very talented. I was so glad to be there and was blessed and energized by the day’s events each day. There are some wonderful young pastors in Nepal!!