Lorna

Lorna was the first person to greet me when I arrived into the Jo-burg Airport. As it turned out, we were on the same flight. She was standing next to the travel agent holding an "IPA" sign identifying herself. Lorna is a mother of three and lives in Vancouver, BC. She is the director of mobilization for Outreach Canada—part of OCI (Overseas Crusade or One Challenge). She also coordinates the Perspectives courses in Canada. Lorna and her husband Phil took Perspectives in 1999 and immediately decided, according to her words, "we're in" even though they didn't know exactly what that looked like. After their church went through a process of adopting an unreached people group, she felt called to work in partnership with other churches, mission agencies, and field personnel working in the same region. She and her husband have been involved since 2002 with Interdev, an agency which no longer exists, but whose principles live on in all of us partnership people. Week after next Lorna will be assisting in the training for those taking the "Forming Partnership" course.

Lorna is a lab technician by trade and her husband is a mechanic. Ordinary people doing extraordinary work! The weird thing about Lorna is that she and I not only met prior to this training, but shared a room together in Colorado Springs about 6 years ago. It's weird because I have no recollection of her at all. This is very unusal for me, a person who can remember a name and a face of every person I've ever met! Pretty odd considering that I roomed with her for a week. The week was obviously memorable to her because she immediately told me about it. I felt pretty stupid.