2016 was a year of major changes. Some of the changes were challenging, but they were also good. Read below. Here are past Wickersham highlights: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, & 2015.
January - I preach my last sermon at Tianjin International Fellowship: Psalm 8. Praise, worship, and bring glory to God.
February - After a 13 year break, I return to coaching a high school girl's soccer team. Go Lady Eagles!
March - We visit Grace Noel's orphanage in Hubei Province and meet her foster mother. It's hard to believe it has been ten years.
April - We accidentally leave Rosalie's $3600 French horn in a taxi, but it's returned to us a few days later. We're thankful for the police and our Chinese friends. Why are French horns so crazy expensive?!
May - I accept a new position as a 6th-9th grade assistant principal at Evansville Christian School (ECS). God is good.
June - We leave Tianjin and move to Newburgh, Indiana. I start driving a 1997 Plymouth minivan.
July - We drive to Florida and attend a family wedding. It's great to catch up with those we haven't seen in a long time.
August - Rosalie tries a new sport, cross country, Grace Noel makes the 5th-6th grade soccer team at ECS, and Josiah Lee joins Newburgh Youth Soccer as a Red Shark.
September - Megan and I speak about our Tianjin lives to a group of Chinese at St. Paul's Lutheran Church. It's good for us to be able to connect with Chinese in the Evansville community.
October - The University of Southern Indiana (USI) hires Megan as an ESL instructor. Go Screaming Eagles!
November - I start coaching soccer players at the Metro Sports Center and decide to start playing on a team. The knees aren't the same, but I can still kick a ball.
December - Megan gets hired as an ESL instructor at Vincennes University. We owe a few people a debt of gratitude.
I am an Alpha lovin' Hafu TCK Hoosier who is married to an Omega lovin' WASP Hoosier, & we are educators who have one married kiddo, one college student, and one middle schooler. This mixed bunch called the Wickershams once lived in the Middle Kingdom, but now reside in Southern Indiana. To Him be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!
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