What do you have when the boss goes home? Extra work!

When you spend a week away from the office you find there is extra work to be done when you come back. That is what we found today. Chad Furness had been with us for a week, keeping us extra busy checking on Self Reliance around Cambodia, then he flew out yesterday. Today we had to write success stories to send to Hong Kong before some high power meetings there, Chad included. This week there were many of the top Self Reliance Initiative team from HQ, as well as leaders from all of the Asia Areas, converging on Hong Kong.

This afternoon was our Asia Area Self Reliance Team meeting. It is still quite amazing to think we can sit in our own office and link with seven other countries to participate in a meeting. The area SR managers were each assigned to tell success stories from their country. Phanna was prepared to tell about the pig farmer we visited in Battambang as part of our visit with Chad. We were impressed with his presentation.

This evening as we left the office we stopped in to see how the young missionaries were doing with their plans for English class. With the most recent transfer the missionary numbers have come up a bit. They were in great shape to cover all the different levels. Since they were well prepared, we didn't stay, but we did get a photo of their English Class preparations.