It's a quiet Sunday afternoon here at YWAM Lebanon. For a little bit longer. Over the next few hours seven students will be arriving to add to the one staff and two I picked up from the airport an hour ago. They're taking TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) which starts officially tomorrow and runs for four weeks.
These past two weeks have been pretty slow. Mostly everyone preparing for the next school. Planning for our summer outreaches as well as the schools in September. Our secretary is taking TESOL so we've been training a temporary replacement. I was busy doing something... I'm not sure what though. I'm actually somewhat happy with the website now though. I guess I worked on it at some point. It's Sunday afternoon, I'm kind of tired.
In terms of base growth, we have five students who have shown a strong interest in the September DTS, and then the TESOL is almost full as well. We'd like to run a second in the fall as well, but that is dependent on whether the teacher, who is Australian, is able to renew her visa.
Tomorrow afternoon though, I fly home for ten days. I've been telling everyone here they aren't allowed to have computer problems while I'm away. This is my semi-annual "you have to leave the country and then come back for visa reasons" trip. It's going to be busy as I have a long list of people to see and I'll also be singing a few songs with my old choir on the occasion of the director's retirement. I'm excited about that, though I have to start learning the music. My main goal is to do some fundraising because I'll need to buy a plane ticket overseas for next winter as I'll be leading a team... somewhere. Either India or Ukraine, but it's not set in stone yet. It's dependent on how many students we have among other things. I am excited to meet all the new people at 24/7 Church as they recently merged with another church in Burlington. The family got larger!
This morning I went to the church I've been going to which is in Harrisburg (I always end up going to a church which is not at all close to where I live). One of the founders of the YWAM Fire and Fragrance base in Harrisburg led worship and spoke. I had a fantastic morning. Very Holy Spirit focused. Then I picked up two quiet folk from Missouri, a brother and sister. I pointed out how roads in Pennsylvania don't go in a straight line and how the highways are not at all convenient.
Life is good. Challenging, requiring growth, but good.
God Bless,
Christopher
No comments:
Post a Comment