Whew, the trainees did it! Five weeks of intensive training in developing local language literacy ministry and English language ministry is complete.
I travelled to Tulsa in July with husband Paul and son Drew. While I taught at the training, Paul and Drew travelled Route 66 between Tulsa and New Mexico and visited with Grandma.
I travel each year to Tulsa to teach "Introduction to Primer Constructio
n". Coming in the last week of an intensive 5-week course has its challenges. Students are tired, ready to go home.
Carol, one of the trainees, told me at the end of the week, she didn't think she would get much out of the class. However, by the end of the week, she was excited and enthusiastic about how we develop our materials.
Thanks for the encouragement Carol!
It is such a privilege to meet these men and women from all over the world who God has brought to the training. The difficulties many of them face in their countries to survive, let alone do any kind of ministry, is certainly a testimony to God's mercy and provision.
Especially exciting for me this year, Lori Martin travelled to Tulsa from Canada to complete the training. As one of our volunteers and Canadian Board members, she has gradually deepened her involvement with us. She will be focusing on the English Language Ministry portion here in Canada.
To read in more detail about the training and some of the participants, check out our
e-news letter .
If you might be interested in taking the 5-week training, check out the information for ILTI 2011 on the
LEI website
Lori and I arrived at the airport. The Lord is already going before us. Our tickets didn't get booked through the Brussells Airline to Jet Airways... however, two seats were available, we have a window and aisle seat. Ken (Lori's husband) was very sad not to be going with us. He wants to go to Africa too (next time Ken).
