We had a good weekend in Michigan wrapping up a 10 day speaking trip and Chris's confirmation at Trinity Lutheran St Joseph Michigan.  It was great to see so many family and friends to celebrate Chris's next step in faith - confirming what his sponsors and mother and I spoke on his behalf at his Baptism.  I have not posted any pics on this site yet but you can see a few at our facebook site by clicking here. 

Now we're back in Saint Louis for a couple of weeks and in phone and email conversations with folks in Botswana getting details nailed down.  LBT admin. meets in the next week to determine whether or not to approve departure and then we'll start negotiating dates and so forth with the folks on the Botswana end. 

In the meantime I (Rich) am spending an hour or two each day in informal Setswana language learning, researching translation theory in a great book by Lutheran missionary Ernst Wendland, and continuing to plan and communicate with churches and partners.  We are four weeks from the end of school, both public and homeschool.  Starting in June we travel weekends to Michigan for speaking dates there and then who knows...

We thank you for your continued prayer and support in this ministry.  It is an exciting time to nail down some of these details and see a couple of years of really hard work coming to fruition.  Talk to you soon!

Rich & Maya