It’s another foggy, misty morning on the mountain. It seems appropriate to finish out the year with a typical Lookout Mountain day. Tomorrow is Covenant’s Commencement, with speaker Kay Coles James. I had the privilege of hearing Kay James speak twice last weekend at a conference in Orlando, and am looking forward very much to hearing her again.

Chaplain Messner and I are traveling Monday with 14 of our first-year students to Brussels, Belgium to spent ten days learning and working alongside several churches there. Please pray for smooth travel, open hearts to kingdom realities, opportunities for conversations with those we meet, servant attitudes and good fellowship with each other and our hosts. The Chaplain will leave from Belgium for Uganda, where he’ll join Dr. Henry Krabbendam and a group of pastors and Covenant students in various gospel outreaches there. I’m remaining in Belgium for the summer to work with several college interns (two from Covenant this year) in a summer mentoring program.

I came across Justin Taylor’s recent interview with Os Guinness about Francis Schaeffer, which reminded me to mention our Neal Conference on True Spirituality next September 14-18. Last year, we were privileged to have Rev. John Smed and the previous year, Archibishop Henry Luke Orombi. Our keynote speaker this fall is Rev. Stafford Carson, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Portadown, Northern Ireland. We’ll have a special musical guest, Andrew Peterson that week as well.