Hello, all! Sorry for the long lapse in blog writing. It's probably irritating to try to follow my blog when I'm such a sporadic writer. I've been thinking of updating for a while now, but the beginning of a new semester with all the changes in schedule and the emotions connected to life in general and relationships in particular kind of make it hard to write regularly. So...yeah. I know many of you, my readers, are praying for me, and I appreciate that so much.
I have an exciting new semester of classes. Here's my schedule:
Monday/Wed/Friday
8:25 am - Christian Evidences (with Mr. Iverson) - new teacher, interesting topic, although it's not new stuff, I'm hoping to become more equipped to remember and be able to relay this information to unbelievers
9:20 am - Ecclesiology (with Mr. Glock) - study of the church with Grandpa Glock...every class is just an encouragement listening to his teaching, his encouragement, his love for the Lord and the Word
1:25 pm - Methods in TESOL II (with Mr. Harrison) - my last TESOL class!
Tuesday/Thursday
12:40 pm - Christology/Pneumatology (with Dr. MacLeod) - doctrine of Christ and of the Holy Spirit
2:00 pm - Personal Evangelism (with Mr. Hernandez) - really great class...talking about Jesus and the Gospel...of COURSE it's great! :)
I have lots of good reading, so that's a nice change, as last semester I didn't have much reading - more projects and papers. A friend of mine brought me new highlighters from Japan over Christmas, and they're getting lots of good use. Seven lovely, bright colors...ever see a red highlighter? :) I also got a new Bible for Christmas, a beautiful, just-right-sized ESV, so I'm having a lovely time discovering God's Word again in a new setting and new phrases. :) It is quickly becoming "claimed" as my own Bible. :)
Sooo....we have started planning our trip to Mexico hard core, now! One opportunity that may be available is teaching!! Some of us on the team may have the opportunity to teach classes to the believers in Mexico covering things that we are learning here at Emmaus. Oh my word!!! That's like my life dream! I never ever thought there was the possibility of being able to teach on a mission trip. I would love to teach, so I'm praying that we'll be able to do that. Please pray about that! :)
We'll need to be buying our tickets within probably a month or less. There are quite a few who are planning to go, and only a couple have the money as of right now, so please pray that the Lord will provide and that people will be willing to share financially with the team. There are also several who have yet to decide 100% whether or not they're going to come with us, so please pray that the Lord would give them wisdom and direction. Also, please pray for our work on the Spanish language. Right now, I'm pretty tired, and it's hard to work on a language, feeling unmotivated, along with the rest of school and church family responsibilities.
So, those are some requests you can be lifting up before the Lord.
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
