After returning home from our U.S. staff training conference and being at home for a couple of weeks, I’m on the road (and the air) again for a week or so.   This time it’s a trip to Bangalore, India with 3 of my teammates to conduct a training for several of our tech leader staff in India.

Shannon cranked up homeschool with the kids last week and they are ramping up to a fall full of activities.  She’d appreciate your prayers this week as well.  Mommy + schoolteacher + cook + activity chauffeur + everything else = overtime work, even when I am at home!

This is my first time to India.  Bangalore is a major city in the south part of India where our country office and training center is located.  If you’ve ever had to call customer service to get assistance with your malfunctioning computer, TV or DVD player, chances are the person who answered the call was located in Bangalore.  It is one of the world’s major technology centers and also where a lot of North American firms place their call centers.  🙂

I’m a little nervous about conducting a technical training for Indians.  They’re very smart!  India has more honors students than America has students (total).  And they all grow up speaking English and other languages, using computers and have a breadth of international experience.  As usual, I’m sure I’ll learn more from them than they’ll learn from us.

Prayer Requests …

~  Safe travel August 15-16 and returning Aug 21-22

~  Lift up Shannon and the kids holding down the fort.  Pray for peace, strength and the Lord’s presence.

~  Pray that I’ll be able to connect with Shannon and the kids via Skype or video call at least once while I’m there.

~  Pray for the training meetings:  11:30pm – 8am eastern time on both Aug 17 & 18.

~  Pray that all our training materials arrive safely in India.