Sometimes it is easy to get caught up in the numbers game when it comes to ministries. Seminaries are not immune to this problem. The first few years at the Mexican Baptist Theological Seminary were rough times for the youth ministry program. After having three students enter the first year to study youth ministry, two of them dropped out. Numbers were not what we had hoped. But we’ve learned a lot since then.
This video of Dr. Elmer Towns says it best. He is talking about leading Liberty University to be the largest Christian University in the world and about his thoughts on the greatness of the Seminary. I especially like what he says here (see clip), “The Greatness of a Seminary is not in the number of students you have. The greatness of a Seminary is what they do for God once they graduate.”
I’m excited to see what our graduates do for God after they graduate from the Seminary.
Furlough, or “home assignment” is a time for a missionary family to get to do some things that they don’t necessarily get to do while on the mission field. Yesterday was one of those days.
We’ve been Tampa Bay Rays fans since they came into the Major Leagues, and this year, they are playing really well. So I decided to take Nathan to his first baseball game yesterday. We got some cheap tickets on StubHub and took off for the day.
Our tickets were 2 rows behind the wall in left-center field, and every Sunday at Tropicana Field, they have Family Fun Days, with all sorts of fun things for families with kids to do. They also happened to be giving out Super Hero Capes (which is why Nathan wanted to go, I think).
So, we ate peanuts, got a foot long hot dog, ate some Carvel ice cream, and watched baseball. It was fun to hang out with my big guy all day.
Here’s another video congratulating us for 5 years as a Center for Youth Ministry in Mexico. This one is from Randy Smith from Youth Ministry International.
Here’s another video that was sent to us from Troy Temple, professor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He’s been to Mexico a few times in the last 5 years, helping us with the ministry here.
Brent Carl, who came to Mexico to teach Programs in Youth Ministry in December, sent us a video to congratulate the Center for Youth Ministry. We’ll be playing it at our anniversary event.
Wow! I can’t believe that the Center for Youth Ministry at the Mexican Baptist Theological Seminary is celebrating our 5th anniversary. Tomorrow we’ve got a celebration planned to give thanks to God and everyone who has been involved with training youth workers in Mexico during the last 5 years.
We were one of (if not the first) youth ministry program offered in Latin America, and we have enjoyed the last five years. We are seeing God do many things in Mexico and the rest of Latin America, and we are excited to be a part of it.
I’ll be posting more things tomorrow, but for now, here’s a quick promotional video we made for the celebration dinner:
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