I was sitting in Starbucks this morning, waiting for them to brew my coffee of the day, and I was approached by two women who handed me a flier about some apartments that are being constructed somewhere in the area.
I took the flier to be nice, and they asked me if I happened to be looking. I said, “No,” with a smile, and they said a few other things and left. Then I got to thinking about a few things.
The first thing was their boldness. They weren’t afraid of my reaction to them. They just gave me the flyer. They weren’t sure if I was interested in buying an apartment or not. They just tried to sell it to me.
The second thing I thought about has to do with being ready and my regret for not being ready. I sure wish I had something to give them about the “business” I’m in. I didn’t have anything that I could give back to them to ask if they were interested in something much more important than an apartment.
You better be sure that in the future, I’ll try to be more bold and be ready to give an answer for the hope that is in me.
(Photo by: thinkpanama on flickr)
This weekend I had the enormous privilege of attending a youth conference called “Dimension Juvenil” with my students from the seminary.
It was two days of training, fellowship, and networking. We had a great time together. Some of the highlights were: traveling on the subway with my students, acting crazy at the concerts, learning lots of great things at the conferences, and meeting new prospective youth ministry students.
I met Josh McDowell (as you can see in the photo), and I caught up with some other friends of mine who are involved in training youth workers throughout Latin America.
Overall, it was a great conference. I had a great time.
This weekend I’m going to a youth ministry convention with all of our youth ministry students here in Mexico.
It’s a convention put on by our friends at Dimensión Juvenil, and I’m excited that our students are going to get to attend. Many of the breakout sessions that will be given are exactly what they need to help them with their ministries. I’m hoping to learn some stuff, too.
I’m also going to network and meet new prospective students. Please pray that we have opportunities to connect with people who might be interested in the youth ministry training we offer.
Here’s a little video we tried to make for our family back home. Nathan was being a little ham.
He’s sort of grown up getting used to me having the camera nearby, so now he knows how to get a laugh.
Click here to watch it on Vimeo.
Here are two things that happened today in Mexico City that you might find interesting.
