Tuesday, July 24

Blowing off the cobwebs

Dear friends of Know~Be~Do:

I have not forgotten how to type, post or communicate. The hiatus of our integrity series is getting to the point of embarrassment. Please rest assured that there is more to come, though it may take a while.

To update you on the series and the need for a hiatus, let me back-track slightly. The integrity series is the overflow of a book I am co-authoring with a dear friend and ministry partner. We have been pouring the last 3 years or so into the research and development of a Bible study for men on the theme of Integrity.

That has all taken an interesting turn lately. Saturday night, July 14, my office was broken into and numerous items were taken. As I have been going through my inventory, the missing items include (to my knowledge so far) a 35 mm camera and telephoto lens, a new 32-channel mixing console for our church audio department (locked in my office for safe keeping prior to installation), a DVD / VCR device, and a 1 GB Flash Drive. The Flash Drive was the sole repository of my research and writings for the Integrity book and web series.

The Hayward Police Department has done a great job in helping me and our church process this event. Only now am I starting to realize the loss of that data. The research is gone (but can be redone), but there are / were also pictures on the drive that cannot be recovered as well as other data that cannot be recreated.

Stay tuned. As events develop, I will try my best to communicate them to you. Pray for whoever now has possession of our missing property. May God bring those people to Himself in a way that brings Him ultimate glory.