New Office

For the past four-plus years, my day to day IAFR work has been performed in my home office. It went from the corner of our living room to taking over my son’s bedroom when he moved out.

Over the past few weeks, I determined it was time for another move. I appreciate working remotely but having human contact is also good. My two large dogs are not the best conversationalists.

Photo credit: Tim Barnes , IAFR

As of March 11, I now have an office space in the Warehouse District in downtown Peoria, Illinois. A couple of people from my church, have offices there and my wife runs her business from the same building. I am enjoying the “community” aspect and the ability to have separate spaces between work and home.

Distracted – Focused

Have you gone through a time where you find yourself distracted by challenges you are facing and then you move from distraction to focus mode, putting energy into trying to solve the challenges.  This seems to be characteristic of my life over the past several weeks..toggling between distraction and focus.  In the meantime, other things are pushed aside…like this blog.

Leading a workshop at the RHP gathering in Sarajevo. Photo credit – RHP Europe

During this period of time, I was able to participate in the Europe Refugee Highway Partnership Roundtable in Sarajevo.  Doug Marshall (IAFR Malta) and I received very positive feedback on our presentation of Best Practices for Refugee Ministry.

I am working the first part of next week from the IAFR Minneapolis office.  I look forward to working with our team there and catching up with some friends as well.  A big focus will be on planning and processes.

The final big news….Spring is showing itself in Peoria…for which I am grateful!