Travel Updates, Joe Rigney & Six Essays Every CREC Member Should Read

Here is a summary of things coming, and a hope for things passing.

2025 is undoubtedly the busiest year of my life professionally. My travels are extensive and part of an intentional schedule for my second year as Presiding Minister of Council. I trust everyone will be patient and that I will remain steadfast through all the speaking commitments and the host of endeavors that are taking place simultaneously with my fundamental responsibilities to my family and then to my local congregation.

My goal will be to reduce my travels by 50% in 2026 to focus more exclusively on our flock in Pensacola and the preparations for the General Council in Nashville, TN. If that happens, next year will be rather dull compared to 2025.

Upcoming Travel

I am finishing the final read-through NSA-Board material as I write early this Friday morning. I will deliver the opening exhortation as I join the board from the comfort of my Pensacola office in a couple of hours. I will miss being around those brothers in Moscow face-to-face. The conversations and the dynamics of a board meeting can be somewhat tedious to external eyes, but the New Saint Andrews Board is a group of witty, comedic, and sober figures that can make even tedious matters interesting. Whenever I spend time in Moscow, I can see the fruits of their labors in the students and families. I was just up there a few weeks ago and hope to be up there again in May for graduation.