1 Degree of Separation

The Sanders live on this ridge overlooking Glasgow, and this was the sunset this evening while I sat and read, not bad huh?
Kate and I spent the day with Mike Laberge, the Master's Commission director for the Edinburgh team. Himself and the 7 students will be helping out with the Church-plant when it begins so it was a fruitful time of getting to know one another. They are going to be important in terms of creative thinking, lending a helping hand, and more young people to relate to college students.

Ever heard of 6 degrees of separation? The theory that you're connected to everyone in the world through 6 interconnecting relationships? I think in the Assemblies, it sometimes feels like it's 1 degree of separation.
For those who have grown up in the Assemblies, anytime you meet someone from another Assemblies church, you're bound to have many connections with one another. The Americans we've met here have not been an exception.

Mike Laberge grew up in Normal, Illinois, which is not far from where my Dad grew up. The Children's pastor at Mike's home church in Normal has now become the Children's pastor for Calvary in Naperville. Mike went to Master's Commission Rockford, and knows several people from Copenhagen Masters (where I was involved 5 years ago).
The Sanders recently spoke at Dan Betzer's church in Fort Myers Florida, where kate and I went to school, and met up with Brad Liebe, who was the missionary I worked under in Denmark. They are really close friends to Alton Garrison(Assemblies Director of Home Missions), along with Alton's daughter Lizzette, who just happened to recently stay at kate and myself's apartment in Naperville because she is dating one of my best friends. They also spoke at a church recently in Little Rock, AK who is pastored by Rob Loy, who happens to be one of my Dad's cousins.
WOW! Assemblies is really freaky sometimes.