Update on Schoenleber Happenings

"Marty, what is happening? Do you know what you are going to be doing yet?"
Short Answer: Yes and No.
Middle Answer: I am going to have a freer schedule to recruit, train, coach and mentor young men who want to start churches and a church planting movement.
Long Answer: Right now there are four opportunities on the radar screen.

Three different districts in the Free Church have made contact at various levels with me to ask if I would consider becoming their District's Church Planting Director. All three are very attractive and could be a very strategic way to spend whatever time God allots to me before I see Him face to face.

There is still the possibility that I might plant another church in closer proximity to Trinity Seminary (or some other seminary) so that I might have greater influence on young men considering church planting as a career.

So that makes four options that I need to pray through and discuss with my wife and family and consider.

"What does that mean in relation to pursuing a doctorate?"

Answer: No change. I will still be able to pursue the doctorate no matter where we eventually discern is God's will.

"Where is your heart right now?"

Answer: I am getting over the initial grief of needing to say goodbye to so many friends that I love at NSC and feel I am beginning to wake up to the new horizon that God is calling me to in the future.

The National Conference for the Free Church here in St. Louis has been a very encouraging time of meeting with so many former students and pastors and friends who have affirmed what I feel is God's new direction for my life. Thanks for all your prayers. All for now. My plane is getting ready to board.