A missionary colleague, Ed Cox, wrote asking if
I still had a copy of a message I gave at the (for Navigators) famous Whing Ding event of 1968, held in bitterly cold weather
at Estes Park, Colorado. It just so happened that, as a result of my recent visit to the Navigators archives at Glen
Eyrie, I do have a copy, which I have now posted.
If you are interested, you can access it by clicking
on the button Select Writings in the left hand navigation column of this page At the bottom of the Select Writings page
you will be directed to Select Writings 2. The Whing Ding message, in Word and Adobe formats, will be at the top of
the list. Right under it is a paper, Teams and Teamwork, for which I still get requests, most recently from another
missionary colleague, Ron York.
In the navigation column to the left you will
notice that Wayward Christian Soldiers is no longer listed. It has been re-posted to the Select Writings group.
You will find its link at the bottom of the first page.
Whenever you see four or five days go by
without a fresh blog from me, you know I've currently got a little too much on my agenda and can't quite keep up. Such
is the case at the moment.
Yesterday was officially the beginning
of summer in my part of the world. I've never been able to figure that out. It's actually the longest day of the
year. From today forward, each day gets shorter. I would think summer should begin about a month earlier,
say May 21st, when the weather (in the USA) really starts to heat up.
Here in the USA the political summer began
some weeks back as current and prospective candidates have raised the temperature higher and higher as mid-term elections
draw nearer. The only candidate that interests me at the moment is John Edwards, for he is the only one, so far, that
is thinking ahead and talking about what kind of society we want to create by the year 2026.
I'm currently reading Roy Robertson's book,
Developing a Heart for Mission: Five Missionary Heroes. Roy's heroes are David Morken, Hubert Mitchell, Richard
(Dick) Hillis, Bob Pierce, and Dawson Trotman. And Roy,
now 85 years old and still very active in world mission, is one of my own missionary heroes.
I'm having rewarding email conversations these days with a long-time friend now working in
China. We are discussing mission strategy, particularly the advantages of those that minimize corporate business
models as over against those that rely on "insider" movements, that is, strategies that rely on the natural networks that
already exist -- within families and in workplaces -- in most societies.
