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Field Leaders Meeting

Well Christy and I got back from a Greater Europe Mission Field Leaders meeting. It was my first time as I have been.  Now that I am working as co-field leader I get to go to these semi-annual meetings for a few days.  I didn’t know if  it was going to be a good time [...]

Pre-accreditation visit here and gone

Pre-accreditation visit here and gone

Last week was pretty busy with all the meetings we had with the Pre-accreditation team. They worked all Tuesday afternoon and late into the evening amongst themselves going over what they had read about our academy and the different interviews they conducted in the day and a half they were here. On Wednesday morning they [...]

Ramifications of Moving

Here’s an update on the last entry. Last time we got out of a rental agreement here it was horrible.  We hadn’t been in Austria a year and had signed a contract that bound us to paying rent for 5 years, no exceptions like a 3 months notice.  It was through compassionate Austrian friends and [...]

Sometimes we feel like foreigners

As many of you know we moved from recently.  There are a few reasons why we moved, mainly being closer to Kati’s school which cuts the daily commute in half (from 40 min. to ca. 20 min. one way).  It is also closer to my work and the public transportation for others to reach us [...]

First Sunday in New Facility

Yesterday, we celebrated our first Sunday in our new facility!  It was quite a difference from our old place. This was modern, new and clean.  There was excitement in the air and everyone was excited. The building a a multi-purpose use building and it is connected to a Kindergarten.  The owner of the Kindergarten is [...]

Accrediating Process Offically Started for the Evangelical Academy in Vienna!

This morning I sent an email to the European Evangelical Accrediting Association (EEAA).  I sent our applications for three of our programs to be accrediated.  This is the first official step of the accrediation process.  I have been working this past year working with a great group of workers at the Evangelical Academy EVAK gathering [...]

Greater Europe Mission (GEM) celebrating 60 years

This week the whole family is attending GEM’s annual conference in the Czech Republic which is only a 6 hour drive (with children) from our home in Vienna.  Last year we were still in the states and could not attend in the conference and are glad to be here this year.  Each year the annual [...]

Back to Blogging

Hello everyone.  It has been a while since I have posted an update and thought it is time I started informing everyone what we have been up to.  When I started this I wanted to have small weekly updates so it would be more managable for me and you and I will try to get [...]

Kagran Church: Project Pagro

Kagran Church: Project Pagro

      Some of you may know that our church the Free Evangelical Church of Kagran is looking for a place to relocate. For the past year they have been talking with an owner for purchasing a building. We have send information through our sail mal Newsletter last year. In the past month there [...]

Right on schedule for being sick in February.

Every year around this time the McCauley family decides to take advantage of all the germs running rampent and gets sick.  This year I, Eric, am feeling a little lonely because right now I am the only one sick.  Last year we avoided  this and this year it seems as if I am the one [...]