Greetings, Friends!

Tomorrow, I travel to Akron, Pennsylvania, where I will participate in a week-long orientation with the 40 or so other SALT interns. On August 16th, I will fly to Amman via London, arriving at my final destination on the evening of the 17th. Much excitement and anticipation on this end. 

A brief note about the blog: it may not last :) After conversing with friends who are in Jordan right now, I have decided not to post again until I receive counsel from my supervisor and get a sense of the security situation in the country. Just wanna play it safe, you know? 

If I nix the blog, then I plan to send out e-mail updates with prayer requests once a month. Let me know if you would like to receive these updates (and if you’ve told me so in the past, please tell me again, in case I’ve forgotten). 

This isn’t my preference. A steady blog would allow me to write freely, to share with everyone or no one whatever thoughts and feelings emerge during my internship, to integrate those thoughts and feelings with my current opinions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Christian-Muslim relations, and other drab issues. But we’ll see.  

Your prayers are deeply appreciated. 

Grace and Peace,

William 

...or Willy 

...or Will 

...or whatever other name you want to call me 

...as long as it’s nice.