1. ILM
In March, I (Leon) attended OM's International Leadership Meeting (ILM) in North Cyprus. The family coped really well and Chrysti took on the brunt of facilitating The Marriage Course while I was away while also single parenting all our children. She is a star!
I always enjoy the fellowship, worship and meetings that happen at the ILM. The conference is always a very busy time with the potential for constant busyness. I try to make time to get at least 30 minutes of quiet while also having 12-hour days.
A highlight for me from the conference was discussing OM's new 5 core values with other participants. I also had breakthroughs in a couple of other topics just by being in person with the others involved in the discussion. I had some really wonderful discussions on Working Genius and how we have found it so useful for the IT team.
The worship with others is always incredible. Singing with hundreds of others from dozens of other languages and cultures gives me a picture of what heaven will be like as we worship our King.
2. The Azure migration is finally complete!
This migration from OVH to Azure for our services fell mostly onto my shoulders. We had a great deal to learn when we looked at the two hosting providers and saw that although they both came up with the same solutions, their methods of doing so were quite different. I had way too many 15-hour days, but by the end of March, we got all the important services migrated to Azure. We do still have some tidying operations to complete, but the time pressure is over.
When we reached the end of March, I was so ready for a break from the busy time away in Cyprus and doing the server migration. The team I work with has been very busy with the server migration and all the problems that surfaced while doing it.
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