We invited Nahum, a friend of Tim and Annette Gulick, to come and share at the seminary last Friday. He did a great job both in my class and in chapel. He came on Thursday night and spent some time at the house with me. Then on Friday, he shared. Nahum has a lot of experience working with the young people at his church in Toluca, and he has also been involved in the development of classes for training youth workers online with paralideres.org.
I received a phone call earlier today from Oscar telling me that he and Huberto can’t go to Guadalajara this weekend with me. The reason I was going to drive to the National Youth Union’s Leadership Workshop Weekend was to take them with me. So I got on the phone with Janell and she got me a flight out tomorrow afternoon so I won’t have to drive 7 hours by myself.
It turns out that another one of the leaders isn’t going to be able to go, either. So, 3 out of the 6 people who have been preparing to present are going to be there. That leaves me, Salomon, and Juan. We will be doing all of the activities for the 2 days we are there. It’s going to be a stressful weekend for sure.
In a few hours, I am going to pick up Nahum, a friend of Tim and Annette Gulick. He’s going to be speaking in chapel tomorrow at the seminary about the topic of youth ministry. He’s been helping out with Tim and Annette for a long time, and they highly recommended him to me as a speaker.
I just got out of a meeting with two prospective students for the seminary’s youth ministry program. I had been in contact with one of them before, and it looks like both of them will probably be coming to the seminary in August. That is such a great encouragement to me because sometimes it feels like there is very little interest in the seminary. We’ll see how it works out, but so far, it seems great.
The first bimester at the seminary is almost over. The final exam for Youth Ministry 110 is Thursday. The next course is Youth Culture, where we will study how to evaluate a sub-culture and use that culture to share the gospel with people who belong to it. The picture is of my first class. I have been teaching YM 110 two times everyday. Next bimester I will only teach two hours per day every Wednesday and Friday.
