The view from Budapest

[image:311:c]After a long 16 hour trip, I’m back in Budapest. I’m pretty exhausted right now, but I’ll be better in a few days. It is great to be home.

It was a wonderful week for many reasons:

1) The meetings were truly ground-breaking. If we can work together across the world [...]

[thumb:304:l] We finished our 3 day meetings and man am I exhausted. We worked really hard and most of our breaks were filled with side meetings. It feels good to be done and to have accomplished so much.

Now, I’m looking forward to some rest and a couple of days of sightseeing with [...]

[thumb:300:l] We all survived the first day of meetings. Here we are diving into the tough issues of how to track measurements globally. Bet you wish you were here .

[thumb:299:l]We spent Monday just orienting ourselves to the city of Singapore and resting up for the meetings that start on Tuesday.

First, we went to an Indian Restaurant in Little India. It was basically rice, different sauces, and with a few choices of meat (mutton & chicken). It was served on a banana [...]

[image:291:c]At about 5:15pm Singapore time, I set foot on the Asian continent for the first time. I have to say that so far it doesn’t feel much different to me. Singapore is a beautiful place and there is English everywhere. If we hadn’t been driving on the wrong side of the street, [...]

Tonight, I’m headed to Singapore. It will be my first time to go to Asia so it will all be new for me. I’m meeting with a team Campus Crusade Staff from around the world about how we measure our ministry. It will have a significant impact on our ministry around [...]

For the last two days, I’ve been sitting in school board meetings. Every year the board of ICSB has a two day “retreat” to focus on strategic issues fo the school. This time we were working on transitioning to a concept called Policy Governance. It is a method of operating [...]

I am sitting here in the airport in Kiev on my way back to Budapest (Free WiFi in the Kiev airport!!!). We were meeting with our team that is creating a Russian Language Internet Ministry. We made a lot of progress especially in the area of responding to visitors. [...]