What are you doing?

Seriously, I get asked this question on a regular basis. So, I figure that my first blog should describe what in the world I'm about these days.

Right now, I am working full-time for Alternative Missions. Our home office is a "virtual office" which means that I work from home (pretty cool). My main responsibilities include web administration and helping develop our Missionary Care.

Web Admin - check out this cool website: VineAge. It's a tool for world-wide church planting movements that Tom Hackett, the founder/director of AM has created. It's pretty awesome & I spend a lot of time developing our AMU website.

Missionary Care - Right now, we're working on determining certain characteristics of AM, of each of our ministry locations and their specific needs in order to further develop this aspect of AM. We have a Missionary Care Team which involves myself, AM administrators and a handful of mental health professionals. I've been attending conferences and reading books to educate myself on missionary care and have also applied to graduate school for a Masters in Social Work. I hope to travel to a few of our locations with the missionary care team before starting school this fall.

Once I start school, I'll be working full time (hopefully at the university for major discounts and benefits) as well as helping with AM's missionary care on the side. The neat thing about APU's MSW program is that I would have summers as well as spring and Christmas break free to visit our locations.

So that's the plan and that's what I'm doing.