So I went sleep in November, and I woke up in January! This past month was a whirl wind.

Katrina and I have been running 237 mph. We left our thanksgiving visit to Wichita early to spend two and half weeks serving our good friends Will & Tanya Dew while they were in the hospital recovering from a critical ATV accident. We returned to Tyler just in time to start packing our things in our home. We have lived in a sweet little Mobile home on the campus for the past three and half years. As of January 1st all of the mobile homes are required to be moved off the YWAM campus. So we have been faced with two options to sell, or to buy land and move it. We feel we are suppose to sell our home. So we started packing the house and putting everything in a storage unit. We also put the home on the market. We are waiting for it to sell, then we will head back to Kansas to rest and recharge our batteries for a couple of weeks.

This January and February Katrina and I will spend traveling the West coast. We will be speaking at churches, and following up on some of our relationships. We both have a heart to see missionaries launched into the urban cities of the United States. So will be focusing our time on the road sharing about Urban missions, and missional living as a lifestyle not an event. To say the least we are very excited! March 28th we will be moving (this is a short-term move) to New Orleans Louisiana to pioneer an Urban Discipleship Training school with our friend and a hero in the faith Brad Stanley (Director of YWAM Chicago.)

Check out the web link:
Http://ywamtyler.org/index.php/training/dts/udts.html

Thank you for all of your prayers, and financial support over the past 5 years. We grateful to invest together with you into the great commission. Blessings and happy new year!

Rodger & Katrina

Urban FACTS:

1 million people move to the cities of the world each week.
170 foreign move into Chicago each day.
Last 10 years 600k immigrants have moved into Chicago.
300k from 10/40 nations (who is there to meet them?)

13% of USA population is foreign born

Different language natively spoken in public schools:
Chicago 110
Dallas 107
Houston 109
The same dynamic is happening in developing nations.