Nancy and I are currently enjoying several days back in Seattle, visiting friends and family. Today we enjoyed a wonderful worship service at Calvin, the church I served for almost twenty years. It was a great time to re-connect with friends, share hugs, and show pictures of our granddaughter and our Greensboro home, as well as to learn about the ways God is working in the lives of people here. While it has been over a year since we left Shoreline, the community that came to mean so much to us has not lost any of its significance to us. Friends with whom we have shared life and ministry for so long and so wonderfully are friends forever, and we are thankful to God for them. Our paths may be different and though we are far apart, as we continue to pray for each other we continue to minister as one!

Since I began posting this blog I have been gratified and affirmed by the feedback which it has elicited. While I have focused on where and what the Ackles are doing, I have tried to make it more than just a "what we did last summer" kind of blog, and comments I have received seem to say that this is appreciated. A component that I have not included, however, is any of the material which I have prepared or am preparing for the various classes which I am teaching. I do not know if this would be of interest to anyone or not, but I am praying about starting to include some of the lessons on the Parables of Jesus, the Letters of Paul, or whatever I am working on. If any reader has feedback on the advisability of this, please use the comment feature on the blog to let me know.