{"id":761,"date":"2015-10-12T22:43:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T05:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2015\/10\/12\/busy-as-a-bee\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:02:39","slug":"busy-as-a-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2015\/10\/12\/busy-as-a-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy as a Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bee.jpeg\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\" title=\"bee.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/bee.jpeg\" alt=\"bee.jpeg\" \/><\/a>Dear friends,<span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\">I&#8217;m in the midst of a very busy time. While trying to take care of my family, helping my son have a good 16th birthday and take my wife and daughter to appointments at Univ of WA Med Center, etc., I&#8217;m also up to my ears in stateside and global trainings. I just finished walking the 15 leaders and staff of Hope Community Church through a Pathways training this weekend, which went very well. On Friday I leave for Ethiopia to conduct a training for a new network there, and along the way I&#8217;ll be meeting with a couple new key Kenyan partners in Nairobi who are very eager to start Pathways in their organizations. We are also looking to either continue or start new networks in 8-10 other locations (including Congo, Egypt, TZ, Kenya, Rwanda, Liberia, Togo, etc.), which I must oversee, supply leaders for, help to launch and maintain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/training.jpeg\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\" title=\"training.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/training.jpeg\" alt=\"training.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, so that is a reasonably full plate, but I&#8217;ve not shared about the most consuming thing. I&#8217;m realizing that I bit off a VERY big bite in starting this program for a doctorate of missiology. Every week I have many readings, much scholarly research in academic journals and databases, and several postings which I must write, and that is just for one of my classes. In addition, I&#8217;m feeling the pressure that I need to complete doing research for and then writing two large papers for the classes I took over the summer, and the deadline for those papers is coming due in about seven weeks. Several of those weeks I will be gone doing trainings. So it looks like I will be needing to multi-task somehow, doing much study and writing on long plane flights, or getting much faster at reading, researching and writing, or something needs to give. I trust that God will bless my efforts, and I&#8217;m learning a lot, but the degree program is larger than life these days. Christ is still on the throne, whether I get assignments done or not, and of that I&#8217;m truly thankful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/research.jpeg\" style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\" title=\"research.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/research.jpeg\" alt=\"research.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So there you have it. I will continue to press on, but I just felt like I needed to vent a little of the pressure that I feel building. Ever onward, Eric<span style=\"font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.3em\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear friends,\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;m in the midst of a very busy time. While trying to take care of my family, helping my son have a good 16th birthday and take my wife and daughter to appointments at Univ of WA Med Center, etc., I&#8217;m also up to my ears in stateside and global trainings. I just finished &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2015\/10\/12\/busy-as-a-bee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Busy as a Bee<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mission-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4111,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/4111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}