Mission Learning Center

{NOTE: Scroll down about four entries to read who the speakers will be at the       Lewisville (Texas) Sound Doctrine and Practice Workshop - 2008}

Loy Mitchell emailed me after the Missionary Retrat and Workshop was over with some ideas for the NEXT one. Me Too!! I am really looking ahead to the 'next one.'

What a great retreat it was. We are having fun, and enjoying fellowship - meals and otherwise - and ingesting the great words of the speakers..but, brethren, this has to be a little like the 'koinenia' of heaven, don't you think? Christians will surely be able to fellowship there and talk of things about God and any/all of His 'everlasting things.'

I wrote Loy back that I hope there are 'workshops' in Heaven, and the reason I do is because I want to have the love shown and compassion felt and courtesies extended and care provided for eachother that we all experienced at Maywood last week. Sylvia and I have decided we hope we can "pair off" in heaven and also "group off" to visit as we discuss eternal - those mysterious "aionian" - things.

My best thing was that I got to visit 'old timers', expecially Gordon and Jane Hogan, with whom we worked in Lahore, Pakistan, in the mid-sixties. In fact, Gordon and I shared a cabin with Gene Gibson; and the three of us had fun talking about just enjoyable things.

And let me correct something I said earlier...Gordon Hogan is WELL OVER 5 FEET HIGH. He quickly corrected a previous estimate I made of his stature; but, whatever,    I know him on the inside....and his passion, compassion, love, courage, drive, and desire to preach and evangelize and serve God, far exceed any 'two meter' mark of stature. He is one of my favorite guys!! He is my mentor and my teacher and my role model as a missionary.

Okay...let's take all those things we heard and discussed and learned at Maywood, live them this year, and plan for the next one in 2009. God be with you all, Don Petty

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