5 — number of staff at this little thing called The Youth Cartel

6 — Youth Ministry Coaching Program cohorts launched

17 — 2-day YMCP meetings I led (this doesn’t include all YMCP cohorts, since April Diaz leads some)

27 — total Cartel resources published (including 8 individual products, 11 Viva releases, 5 NEXT releases, and 3 other) (BTW: we’ve got a pretty big announcement coming next week on a Cartel publishing shift for 2017)

19 — non-Cartel speaking gigs (almost all included multiple days/talks)

213,275 — miles flown on airplanes (173,725 on United, 39,550 on other airlines)

41 — locations traveled to by air

9 — countries visited, not including the U.S. of A.

2 — new countries added to current total of 46 countries visited

16 — states visited

0 — new states added to current total of 48 states visited (this # has been the same for more than a dozen years).

115 — days when jeannie and i were empty-nesters

37 and 9 — days vacationed and number of vacation trips (see, i play hard also)