One of the bittersweet things about college ministry is watching the people in your ministry graduate and move on.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s fresh on my mind because I bumped into two students who recently walked the line.<\/p>\n
This weekend Julia Heng (who just got her master\u2019s degree in Management, Science, and Engineering) dropped by for a few minutes to return some stuff she had borrowed from us. I hadn\u2019t seen her since our graduating students celebration\u2013she\u2019d been gallavanting around the country with her parents (it was her mom\u2019s first time in America). Then she headed back to Singapore.<\/p>\n
And then this morning I had breakfast with Nate Flake. Nate just graduated from Stanford with a degree in linguistics. He speaks more languages than anyone else I know.<\/p>\n
He wasn\u2019t able to join us for the celebration that we hold right before graduation, and he\u2019s been on the road since receiving his diploma. This was the first time since then that we\u2019ve been able to connect.<\/p>\n
And tomorrow he flies to China for a year. He\u2019s not sure what he\u2019ll do there, he just knows that he doesn\u2019t want to teach English. He\u2019s angling for a job as a translator or something.<\/p>\n
Good luck and Godspeed, Julia & Nate! We\u2019ll miss you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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