On Sunday September 2nd I preached at the old stone church in downtown Kona, Mokuaikaua Church, in both of their morning services. This church is the oldest one in the State of Hawaii, founded in 1820.
The evening of August 28 I shared a session with our volunteers and the next three days I taught a seminar in one of our University of the Nations courses at the campus in Kona.
On August 14th I was able to teach a session from Kona via Skype to a University of the Nations course in Redding, California. The next day, I taught a session in a seminar at our center in downtown Kona just opposite the pier.
By a month following Judi’s surgery, Judi was able to get around well. She was able to drive the car again. So, she felt strong enough to release me to go to Paris to teach a seminar and participate in a summer of service there. On the way over, I stopped for a night in…
After teaching the seminar at Surfing the Nations, I returned home to Kona for 3 days until I flew over again to Honolulu, but this time with Judi, as she prepared to have total knee replacement surgery at the Kaiser Hospital there. Following surgery, Judi spent one night in the hospital, then we flew back…
After teaching in the Korean course the previous week, I returned home to Kona for several days, before returning again to Honolulu to teach in a leadership course at an NGO called Surfing the Nations. They focus on helping people in the area where they live in Honolulu as well as reach out to various…
After returning home, the last week of May I flew to Honolulu to teach a seminar in a Korean language course at the University of the Nations campus there.
From Finland we stopped by to visit our son and his family living in Europe, and then we traveled to Biarritz, France to teach in one of their University of the Nations courses. I taught that seminar in French. From there we returned home to Kona, Hawaii.
From Estonia we took the ferry boat across to Tempere, Finland for the leadership conference for our University of the Nations school leaders all throughout Europe.
The last week of April Judi and I traveled to Tallinn, Estonia to meet with an organizing team for a European conference in Finland for school leaders in the University of the Nations schools in Europe. While in Estonia we visited the main church in Tallinn.