Ten years ago today (2016), Shari had a baking class! A new semester had begun at the community centre, and Kaycee was hard at work as well (seen in the background here – 5th from the right), teaching English and even an Asian cooking class!
For a while we had the privilege of serving at a local senior’s shelter. Here’s a quick video with some people you may recognize, leading music, ten years ago today…
This isn’t an epic picture, but how often do you get a candid picture of both Shari and I? I don’t know who took this – I think it was one of our kids.
We were kicking off some of our summer activities by helping out at a soccer tournament (pardon the pun) in Las Palmas, put on by the community centre. Fun times! And here we are in a quiet moment – ten years ago today…
As many of you know, for the last few years we have had institute classes – that is, Bible college level classes open to students from three or four churches in the area.
Starting in August, and running (roughly) every two weeks, we were doing a course on the basic Christian life, including topics such as:
And much more! The challenge for the teachers was that we often had to cover two, three, or even four topics in one week – and not easy topics, as you can see!
For the last class this past Saturday, our original teachers, John and Frank, came down from Texas to teach and hand out the diplomas.
For the last two classes, we focused on the return of Christ – a wonderful theme to end with, after struggling through so many topics related to obedience to the Lord. We are reminded, once again, to “be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 15:58).
John was showing us an object lesson at the end, intended to show how the Holy Spirit works through our imperfect human efforts. The experiment actually didn’t show anything – something went wrong, as sometimes happens! But it reminded me that there is so much that we don’t see in this life. God is going to do amazing things – and is doing amazing things through His Word and His Spirit – someday we will see a much bigger picture of the great things He has done!
Another class is being planned – after we take a break!
Ten years ago today (2015) we were busy putting together wheelchairs, together with a team from Pathway Community Church. We might have made a few mistakes during the assembly, but I think we corrected them all!
This was actually an outreach in Las Palmas, where the third church would eventually start. At an event the next day, we were providing wheelchairs to some people in need, and promoting our various community centre classes. Mayra shared the gospel with the group that had gathered.
Ten years ago today – painting class with Jessica, at the Community Centre in Jesús María!
Ok, here’s the real picture! Click for a larger version.
