Try to make a quick update here. Last Saturday the 28th, Mike Schaffer, Randy Dobroat and I met with Joe Wilkey of World Compassion Network. We hammered out a memorandum of understanding so that Builders of Hope could become part of WCN. By the end of the month we should be a part of WCN. At that point in time I will be able to begin raising support, so that I can start doing mission work full time!
Last Friday we got some sad news. My half brother died Wednesday. He was 56. He had been waiting for a liver transplant for a number of years. They finally found one for him, and were in the process of implanting it. They hooked the new liver up and his heart gave out. The funneral was Tuesday. We were not that close, it had been four years since I saw him, and he lived in Elkhart. It really seems like we get so rapped up in our lives that we forget what is really important.
One of the good things that came out of this is that Bobby had a sister (which is my half sister) that says she wants to be in our lives. I haven't seen or heard from her in over forty years. I guess I am a little skeptical, since she hasn't seemed to have made any attempt in the last forty years to make any contact. We will see what happens.