In this day, keeping in touch with people should not be difficult. We have emailing, snail mailing, texting, tweeting, phoning, skyping, and on and on it goes. One of the lessons from our trip was keeping in touch matters ... ALOT!
One way we have accomplished this in our ISI Northeast region is our monthly prayer call. Each month, at the appointed time we, as many as can, dial in to a conference call and Richard co-ordinates and leads us.
We praise God for who He is, share answers to prayer and thank Father, share requests and pray for one another. It has help us grow in comraderie and affection. We are no longer strangers when we meet at conferences or when we travel. Although awkward when we first started 10 years ago we have pressed through.
There are many good lessons for me as we seek to keep in touch with our student friends around the globe --- just do it; press through the awkwardness; praise God; share answers to prayer; share what God is doing as well as our requests; do it routinely. Excuse me, a - skyping - i - must - go !
Good reminder, Richard... I am committed to making phone calls on weekends. Also facebook is a great tool for keeping in touch with OBU alums including International Students...
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