Cabin on the Mount Updates

I’m just wondering if it might be a good idea for us each to try to give a very brief synopsis on email as a baseline for our reconnect? Katie

Rob Banks: "If it’s appropriate, you might include reference in the group email to what happened to me over the last 12 months. In the space of a few weeks during a ministry and writing trip in Asia, I lost almost all energy and mobility, was diagnosed with advanced stage 4 lymphoma, and evacuated back to Australia. For a time I was largely unable to think, speak, and eat properly, and spent three months in hospital undergoing chemotherapy and rehabilitation. Halfway through these, via people’s prayers and good chemo, thanks to God I experienced complete remission. Several months later life is now completely back to normal, with only quarterly checkups to ensure the remission is continuing." and also, “Back in Sydney, I headed up a new Institute for Christian Studies on a university campus - where Linda was a chaplain - whose courses could be taken by any student towards their degree. Alongside this, I wrote books on a theology of everyday life, contemporary film, and leadership, and was honored with a Festschrift by some well-known scholars. Linda and I also created several biblical resource materials for small groups. After retiring to Canberra, we began regular teaching visits to Singapore, and writing biographies on earlier women missionaries in China. We have made…