Yesterday, we took the morning off to watch the movie 13 going on 30. It’s a movie about a girl who on her 13th birthday wishes she were 30 and gets it. A great little story about how the decisions we make now can affect our lives later. It’s worth watching.
Tonight was the opening night of the seminary year. There was a great worship service followed by some food, fellowship, and games. In this picture, I’m running with Israel, a first year youth ministry student. You can see who is losing.
Orientation: Tomorrow is Orientation at the seminary. It turns out that we have about 25 new students in the whole seminary. It’s amazing how things all come together in the end here. We’re still not sure about how many youth ministry students we’ll have, but I’m sure I’ll have about 5 in my first class. That’s a pretty good start, considering a few weeks ago I was wondering if we’d have any. I’m sure you’ll all get to know them well through this site as we keep you updated on how we are doing at the seminary.
Airport and Birthday Party: We’ve been to the airport two times in the last 2 days. Yesterday, we took a MK teacher to the airport. She was going to Cancun to visit her parents. We waited for almost 3 hours for the US Airways office to open so we could get our plane tickets to Orlando for the Association of Youth Ministry Educators conference that is happening October 22-24. We were trading some vouchers we got for tickets. It worked, so we are headed to Orlando in October.
We went to a birthday party for Russell Herrington, the academic dean at the seminary, last night. A bunch of us missionaries played games and ate banana pudding (his favorite) for the party. It was fun.
This morning, we took another friend of ours to the airport at 7 am. It’s the best time to drive to the airport because there is no traffic. We made it there and back in less than an hour. Usually, it takes an hour just to get there.
Lunch: Yesterday, we had a great lunch with Josue Santos and his family. Josue is the pastor at Dios Es Amor, and we were discussing our relationship with their church and the relationship of the church with the seminary. This church is going to be a vital part of the seminary program to train youth workers. It will serve for the “Obra Practica” as the laboratory where the students will get hands on, supervised youth ministry experience as well as have the opportunity to be mentored in youth ministry. This is one of the distinctives of our youth ministry program, and we are excited about this partnership with Dios Es Amor.
