Thanks

For all that has been, Thanks. For all that shall be, Yes. - Dag Hammarskjold

 No one gets to do what I am about to do without a great deal of help. You just don't decide to "up and go off" to Korea one day, and get on the plane the next. Thank you to:

• Professors Hee Sung Chung (Theology) and Young Sook Nam (International Studies), my two main academic contacts at Ewha, for moving heaven and earth.
• My colleagues at Mars Hill: Professors Kathy Meacham, Matthew Baldwin, Nathan McMahan, Phyllis Smith and Lucia Carter for helping me dream this big dream, translate it into  academic-ese, and green-lighting the entire process.
• My dean, John Wells, who kept on saying "Yes."
• The HR department at Mars Hill, especially Deana Holland
• My family: 
• My parents, seeing me off to Korea a second time.
• My daughter, who has done so much investing in me to enable this.
• My wife, who joins in this venture with enthusiastic support.
• My two brothers, who help with family support.
• My friends the Speegle-Snells, who will be more the family they already are.
• My faith-community, the Circle of Mercy in Asheville.
• Dharma and Maya, my therapists who happen to be cats.
• Thanks also to Hands and Feet of Asheville, and The International Foundation of Ewha Woman's University.

Such a Cloud of Witnesses.

Thanks, and Yes!

Marc