Last week the leaders of our team took a few days apart to "refocus" as we move into the fall season. We had an area leader visiting with us and it was helpful to have his more objective input as we discussed many things. Matthew led us through an overview of the history of our work here since its beginnings, in 1995-6. The place where we retreated for 2 days and one overnight was somewhere in the middle of nowhere but it was very picturesque.
We ate very well, particularly the evening we had 'shashlik' (shishkebab). It was prettty nice to be in a place where we were undisturbed for a while by outward demands and responsibilities. That's not to say, though, that we didn't work. We had meetings all day long both days, that resulted in us doing some restructuring of the organizational aspect of
our team. The end result, hopefully, will be that things will be run more efficiently. But one of the decisions made that affects some of us immediately, is to do some office-changing that will reflect our new structure. For me, this means that I will be moving out of my nice, big, open, airy, blue office in the new mission centre into an older, smaller office in the older building where our other offices are. Sigh. There are some positive aspects to this, though. Namely, there is wireless internet in the old building (and not yet in the new - go figure) and the old building is much easier to get to as it is on a paved road. No longer will I have to discuss with myself on the way to work which road will be least muddy and which road will be inaccessible and where I should park and how far and through how much mud I will have to walk to get from my car to work. I will just pull up in front of the building, even when it's raining, and park right there. Ain't life grand?
Last week the leaders of our team took a few days apart to "refocus" as we move into the fall season. We had an area leader visiting with us and it was helpful to have his more objective input as we discussed many things. Matthew led us through an overview of the history of our work here since its beginnings, in 1995-6. The place where we retreated for 2 days and one overnight was somewhere in the middle of nowhere but it was very picturesque. 
We ate very well, particularly the evening we had 'shashlik' (shishkebab). It was prettty nice to be in a place where we were undisturbed for a while by outward demands and responsibilities. That's not to say, though, that we didn't work. We had meetings all day long both days, that resulted in us doing some restructuring of the organizational aspect of 
our team. The end result, hopefully, will be that things will be run more efficiently. But one of the decisions made that affects some of us immediately, is to do some office-changing that will reflect our new structure. For me, this means that I will be moving out of my nice, big, open, airy, blue office in the new mission centre into an older, smaller office in the older building where our other offices are. Sigh. There are some positive aspects to this, though. Namely, there is wireless internet in the old building (and not yet in the new - go figure) and the old building is much easier to get to as it is on a paved road. No longer will I have to discuss with myself on the way to work which road will be least muddy and which road will be inaccessible and where I should park and how far and through how much mud I will have to walk to get from my car to work. I will just pull up in front of the building, even when it's raining, and park right there. Ain't life grand?
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