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Snapshots along the way #2

This post is Part Two of “Snapshots,” a series of stories in which I share some snapshots of my life, the people who helped shape me, and the way that God has led me thus far.

View Part One here.

I didn’t expect it, but there it was.

Moist eyes…gravely voice…and a tear.

It was the last twenty minutes of my final meeting as a member of the board of Mountainview Christian School, located at the foot of Mount Merbabu in Central Java, Indonesia.

“Do you have any words of wisdom to share, Steve,” I was asked over the Zoom call as I sat in the makeshift office in my Idaho home.

“Well…I don’t know about words of wisdom…but I do have something to say.”

The words were out of my mouth before I had considered whether or not I wanted to say them.

I was going off-script.

Off the cuff.

Flyin’ by the seat of my pants.

“I don’t know if any of you know much of my story…but I came to Central Java Inter-Mission School as a 24 year-0ld single guy who really didn’t know what he…