Great post about students

Matt Kingsley has a great post over here about young people and their use of MySpace.com, and interesting social networking site on the internet. He has some good thoughts on it.

A Sad rant

If He owns the cattle on a thousand hills, why is there no money where it needs to be? I just finished talking to a student at the seminary that I advise for Christian service, and he tells me that he isn’t sure if he will be able to return next January because of the financial situation. The church where he works supports him a little. His church at home supports him with half. His family can’t support him because they aren’t committed Christians.

What’s going on? I hate to see people who really want to serve God have to leave their studies because of a lack of finances. And this student isn’t the only one. They go without food sometimes. They spend their last pesos on transportation to the church where they are serving. Why is it that the ministry is so underfunded? I don’t even know if that is a word. The cause of Christ really suffers because we are selfish and bad administrators of the money He has given us. Oh, I wish I could help. I can only pray.

Last Day of Class in 2005

Today was the last day of class for 2005 at the seminary here in Mexico City. I still have a few final exams to give (tomorrow), and the students still have their projects to turn in (due date: TODAY). They always turn them in late. But…at least the classes are over. That means one thing: Christmas is close.

It also means another thing: I have to turn in grades soon. From my evaluation of the students so far, they have been learning the information. What they don’t have is a lot of structure or organization. I credit the way they have always grown up in school (lecture, take notes, spit out what you memorized). That doesn’t jive at all with the way I teach (or how I believe people learn). I cannot tell them exactly how to plan lessons or how to do their projects. My job is to make them think. Allow them to process and evaluate things. This is difficult, I believe, for them. So, we’ll see how they do on the projects (which are a better evaluation of what they have learned than the “exams”).

An all-season card

I got this in my email today and thought it was funny. It’s the card for all seasons.
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