"What In The World Are You Doing?"

The post office is desperate to get rid of people, so they offered to let me retire seven years early. The vast majority of the thousands who have received similar early-out offers have refused, for these reasons:

--We haven't prepared financially to retire now, so
--We'd need to find jobs until we can fully retire, and no one's hiring
--Our retirement funds have tanked with the stock market devaluation

So I went along with the majority, right?
Nope.
My wife and I have dreamed since before we were married of moving to the Philippines as soon as we can. We want to do charitable work to help some of the millions of poor children there. My son goes to off college in four years, so we decided that I should accept the early-retirement offer now, and find another job to pay the bills until we're empty-nesters and can emigrate in 2013. In the Philippine economy, we will be able to live comfortably with just my pension and our diminished savings.
We would appreciate your prayers for me getting a decent job, as well as for us deciding which charity we should join up with (or maybe we'll start a new one?). Here are the three that we are supporting as much as we can now:

--Child's Wish (if you're on Internet Explorer, you'll see a video on their home page in which my wife and I make a few statements )
--House of Light (my wife and I are written about on the bottom of their home page)
--Family Circus (I am the editor of their email bulletins)

Thank you for your prayers.
We hope to also inspire someone out there to use retirement as an opportunity to serve, to experience real adventure, rather than merely playing golf and watching Oprah for the rest of your lives!
(Some of you have never seen jgapinoy. Here's your chance--visit the links.)