Today is another one of those “unstructured days” which really means that everybody works like crazy, but nobody notices. No, that’s not really fair everybody notices because they too are working like crazy and checking to see if they are behind or ahead of schedule.

The day started with a brief time of fellowship and last minute information relating to what’s up for the next 24 hours or so. The rest of the time from 8:45 has been taken up with catching up with all the documents (deliverables) that need the input from clients and final touching up in preparation for handing in at 3pm.

While all the consultants are busy with these items, Rebecca and I have meetings with potential clients and team members who need input and to ask questions on all sorts of matters.

We need to discuss, prepare and compile new presentations for the team debriefings, dinners and speaking engagements that are still to come.

Once the team has delivered all their documents to Rebecca and I (at 3pm) we will be doing the final checks before the consultants print out final copies for handing to their clients tomorrow morning.

It’s like the day before market opens (or a wedding) with lots of hectic activity and deadlines.

The amazing thing is the grace, dignity and dedication that one observes with the consultants, determined to do their best, to glorify God.

I dread them all leaving on Saturday and Sunday. They have all become so special to me and we have had such special times … and today is just another one of those special times in spite of the pressures.

I’m going to take a risk and single out one couple who have been a blessing to us all (they’ve all been a blessing, but here is an example). Tim and Annie are two Vietnamese who have been married for 4 years and been Christians for 9 months. They have amazing individual stories, but, as soon as they became Christians, they started asking god how they must reorder their business interests to glorify him Annie is a dentist and Tim is a Real Estate agent. In their search for God’s guidance they became aware of rēp and, within a short time ended up on training in San Francisco and then on this particular venture to Jakarta. They are both such caring and special people and have blessed us all and me in particular, just to watch them blesses me.

So, God has put together a very special team both from the USA as well as locally and each has a unique testimony of how God has brought them to this point.

The loss of the returning USA consultants will be lessened by the fact that the local consultants will still be here to work with us as we seek to expand God’s work here in Indonesia.

The miracles and amazing things that have happened here need a book.

We eat the funniest things and in the strangest of places. Tonight is such an event after the hectic pace of the day, week and venture. We will be having our final team dinner before the final day and then the final dinner with all our clients.

We thank God for His care and undertaking and for the clients and consultants that we have been honored to work with and who have blessed us over these two weeks.

Every blessing as many of you have joined us on the venture in support and prayer.

Errol J. Smith