Our flights to Honduras were great. We had no problems and arrived on time. We stopped in El Salvador first and then made a great landing in Tegucigalpa.
Then Rob took me to a great place called El Patio. It’s a typical Honduran restaurant, and we had a steak called “El Conquistador.” It was the best steak I’ve had in a while. The atmosphere of the restaurant was great, too. So far, I like this country! Stay tuned for more.
Tomorrow, I’m leaving for a quick trip to Honduras. I’m going to be investigating what’s happening there as far as youth ministry is concerned, and I’ll be looking for future opportunities to work in that country.
One of my long term goals is to have contacts in each country in Latin America, so I’m going with my friend who was a missionary there, and I’m hoping to get to connect with some new people down there. I’ll be back on Wednesday. I’ll be posting from there, so keep up with the trip here.
Check out this collection of 1950’s Cuban Advertisements.
It’s a great collection of art from the pre-revolution era, which shows ads for rum, department stores, movies, and other things. It’s worth checking out.
(Via: Boing Boing)
Today was the last day of class at the seminary for this school year. I’ve got a flood of emotions inside. I’m excited, proud, reflective, a little sad, emotional, happy, and all kinds of other things that I can’t describe.
If all goes according to plan, and all of the work gets turned in, Huberto will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in youth ministry. He’ll be the first certified graduate in youth ministry in Latin America. In my opinion, he has definitely proven himself as a leader and great youth pastor.
I’ll write more about it later, but for now, I wanted to say how crazy it is that four years have gone by, and we are finally seeing some fruit from the labor.
In January, I taught a class on camps and retreats in the Master’s in Youth Ministry program that YMI is directing. Their post-class assignment was to actually plan a camp. They worked out their schedules to put together two camps. One is happening this weekend, and the other happened a few weeks ago.
The focus of the camp a few weeks ago was to train youth leaders using the Jesus Focused Youth Ministry curriculum from Reach-Out. It seems that the camp went very well.
Here’s a visual report that they sent me, with some descriptions of the photos. Click a picture to read the title and description.
By the way, this isn’t a youth camp in Mexico. It’s in another country. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, watch the slideshow and read the descriptions. You’ll get the idea.
Our friends Tim and Annette Gulick, who lived and worked in Mexico for many years and run an incredibly helpful resource site for Spanish speaking youth workers, have recently moved to Argentina. They’ve gone there to help with a youth ministry institute that Youth Specialties is beginning.
They’ve been blogging about their experiences and their new life in Argentina, and anyone who’s interested in youth ministry in Latin America or global youth ministry should read what they’re doing down there.
