Okay, my first words on a blog...ever! Here I am at the end of a fabulous adventure and getting ready to start a new one! A funny feeling to be sure! My life has been all about pastoral ministry for the past 41 years or so. What a change!
My last Sunday in formal pastoral ministry will be Sept. 25th, 2011. We have served here in Longview, WA, for the past 6+ years and are wrapping it up. It looks like we will have representatives present from five of the six churches I have pastored. In fact, if things go as I hope, we will have a lady present in this final service who was present in my very first service (as a Sr. Pastor) in Marysville, CA, 1973! Isn't that something!
Following the final service, we will be bringing the moving experience down the home stretch. A forty foot moving container will be delivered to our home on Sept. 28th. I'm told that we have 3 hours to load it! Should be fun, especially for me...had a double hernia surgery on Wednesday, August 24th!
On October 3rd we leave for a family reunion back in Branson, MO. We will enjoy time with them there for a few days and then move that celebration up to Moravia, IA, for a few days and then back to Longview on October 10th. Then, drum roll please, on October 16th we move the show to Costa Rica! Whoever would have thunk it!!!
The transition to CR has been in process for about 18 months. It's too long a story to tell, but Josh ran across some information about CR when he was looking at some time share material. That resulted in a family trip to CR and more specifically to Osa Mountain Village. To make the story a whole lot shorter, we purchased an acre in that village. Then last January Josh and I spent 2 weeks in the area.
Our intent at this point is to develop that acre by building and marketing at least 3 homes while at the same time adventuring and doing whatever I need to do to connect with the Christian community in the area. The Church of the Nazarene currently has no work/church in that area, so you can know that I'm motivated to change that! We'll see what happens.
As a retired guy, with lots of energy, I hope to post lots of information on the web regarding my adventures. A few weeks ago I purchased a Nikon 5100 camera that allows stills, of course, but also up to 20 minutes of video. We'll see what happens!
That's enough for now.
Much Love,
Wes
You are indeed off on an adventure! So your son and his family will be there, too?? Sounds awesome.
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