Our final stop in the Northwest was at Trinity in Bend, OR. Trinity is a century old church and school that recently accomplished a major building program, resulting in a massive new space for worship as well as their senior high classes. Pastor Caleb Adams invited us and I was able to share a brief devotional with their pre-schoolers, K-5th graders, and finally their 6th through 12th graders. Each batch was a huge number of kids, but they were very polite!
Those are not my drums.
And yes, I was by far the frumpiest aspect of the entire morning and location!
In my time with the junior and senior high students, I challenged them to consider overseas mission work if they weren’t sure what the next step in life was going to be. Hopefully that idea sticks with them.
Afterwards I presented on the work in Asia to a Bible study for retired folks. They were very engaged. We met a woman who came to Indonesia after the devastating tsunami in 2004 to do relief work, and spoke with a Honduran man very interested in LCMS mission work in Latin America.
We found this connection due to family friends of Gena and a former college classmate of hers as well, both of whom are now working at the school. We’re grateful to the community of Trinity Lutheran for welcoming us.
The Nelson Family Indonesia 