Pre What?

This weekend our training begins. Our missions team will be retreating to Leuders, Texas for our first training module. This is a monumental moment for us because our team has been in a stage typically known as "formation" for the past two and a half years. The formation will undoubtedly continue as things turn to a more mental and spiritual focus.

Most of us are oblivious to what the weekend will hold. This particular stage of our training is known as the PreMAC weekend. Which means Preliminary Missionary Assessment Conference, I think?

Over the Christmas break we each filled out this huge application called the MBIF. Another Halbert acronym meaning Missionary Biographical Information Form. In addition to this 18 page form there were three essays. It should come as no surprise to Halbert that we are a bit jittery as to what awaits us this weekend.

Some of us are envisioning some sort of spiritual gauntlet. Or maybe the missionary version of American Gladiator.



Starring . . .

Gary the Green Mean Machine and company, including Sonny Tsunami Guild, Steve Alligator Allison, and Kent the Comanche Smith.

Each will be a part of the grueling weekend. Bible trivia, relational evangelism simulators, restoration history jeopardy, who knows? As the saying goes, hope for the best but expect the worst. If we are fairing well they might turn it up a notch. Encounters with the demon possessed, the lame beggars of the Big Country, or even one of Abilene's modern Pharisees, all of which could enter into the picture.

Check back next week to find out what all went down at our PreMAC weekend.

-Wes