In early September, Judy and I (along with our son and all of our pets) will be moving 10 hours north to Houghton, MI.  We have accepted a pastoral call in the upper peninsula of Michigan.  Our assignment will include pastorship of a small church in Houghton, two companies near the area, and the establishment of a campus ministry at Michigan Technical University.
Although we are very honored by the call and will enjoy this new line of ministry, we are also hesitant to leave our friends and colleagues at CAMPUS.  This year promises to be one of the best years for CAMPUS with a great Missionary Training Program, a revived student group, and a more dedicated staff.  We’ll miss being a part of it all.
On Thursday we will meet with the conference office to discuss our transition which will start in a couple of weeks and will go through November.  CAMPUS is also working out the final details to get Pastor Steven Conway and his wife from NJ/NY to replace our current position.
For those living in Ontario, we’ll be your neighbors separated only by Lake Superior.  Same thing for those in MN.  We’ll probably be closer to your conference office than to ours.  We are in the process of getting rid of our cars to buy one with 4WD along with a snowmobile.  They get close to 300 inches of snow in a year sometimes.
Make plans to visit us!  Especially in the winter.  Our new place will have it’s own sauna for Andy and Dave 🙂
There are snowmobile trails with campsites along the way.  So we’ll be our own vacation land…call us Little Maine.  And in the summer…Scuba Diving.  You can even preach at our (little) church…es 🙂
CMX is the airport code.  I know some of you are already looking into getting tickets to come and visit!
Keep us in your prayers, as it may be a difficult experience finding out who our friends REALLY are (the ones that visit us way up there).