On Monday, without warning, I was handed some extra interim responsibilities at the newspaper. I don’t know how long it will take to resolve the situation, but in the meantime I’m trying to do my normal job, plus the extra responsibilities, plus get ready for the mission trip to Africa which I will be co-leading in, oh, about three weeks.

Last night, I drove to Cowan to meet Gail Drake and Jennifer Janeway for dinner, so that Gail and I could go over a few things and Gail (who’s snowed under in her own day job) could hand off some paperwork which I had offered to take last week.

I have the day off work tomorrow, although I will have to work some on the Fourth (and every Saturday, except during the trip, until the current situation is resolved and we can set up the normal on-and-off rotation). I’ll spend part of the day putting together a notebook with vital information about the team members, a task I started tonight.

Please keep both me and Gail, not to mention our teammates, in prayer over the next few weeks.