Prayer Requests

As I slowly get back into the swing of life on the Island and at PIBC, I realize that there is a lot to do before the semester starts.

One reason for that is my boss, our campus director, Steve Stinnette, has been having eye problems and it has been determined that he needs to go back to the States for a Cornea transplant. (He actually will be coming to Philadelphia to Will's Eye Hospital).... He will be gone at least 2 years for surgery and follow up care. At this point there is no one to take his place. This means that it is likely that many of us will split his responsibilities at least temporarily. This will take place over the next 3 weeks as everyone else returns.

Please pray for wisdom in this process and for wisdom in finding someone to fill the position during Steve's absence.

Another problem we have currently is housing. We have limited housing available and with not that many students graduating - this means very little room for new students. There are very many details but please pray for wisdom in who and how many students to accept and where to put them.

We also have a bunch of new people starting including Tim and Melody Plaxton. Tim will be our maintenacne supervisor taking over many of Peter's responsibilities and Melody will be an English teacher. Eric Sorenson will be a new teacher.....He has a wife Karyn and 3 children. Karyn is a counselor and may be doing some counseling besides home schooling her two youngest children. A new Crystal will also be among us. She will be teaching some type of math. Delight (husband of Eveylyn) will now be working with Jens in the financial aid area. Please pray as we grow as a family that we would still be able to work together with a spirit of love and unity that we have grown to appreciate here at PIBC.

Right now we have two missions teams in Thailand at two different sights. They return to Guam next Wednesday August 15th. Pray that God would strengthen them and give them unity in their teams to do whatever God is calling them to do as they finish up 4 weeks of service. Pray for their safe arrival back in Guam.

As I met with Steve and Ned yesterday, it became clear that there needs to be some changes in the area of student transportation. In the past we have tried to take students where they need to go. However with this many students, and the current gas prices, and limited drivers - it can no longer be done. Pray we would be wise in developing the new policy.

Pray also for wisdom in the area of providing meals for the students. We had hoped to have our new "Dinex" cafeteria up and running this semester but we found that it is not feasible. Some of our assumptions were incorrect, and so it looks like another semester where we will have to cater the food. Now before school starts we have to find a caterer. We also need pray for the best way to run our kitchen during the coming semester.