schedule for next two weeks

Thought I'd share a brief overview of our schedule for the next couple of weeks in case you're curious or would like to hold us up in prayer.

Wednesday 24

Today Derek and his dad are making a trip to León for two main reasons. First,

another quickie

Good afternoon! Here's a quickie because I don't have much time. Tomorrow evening Derek Schuurman arrives from Redeemer University, where I graduated. He was my computer science prof, and is coming here under that capacity to train local teachers and students in that field. I've been working very hard to arrang for invitations for him to speak at both Christian and secular universities, as well as to a group of Christian profs from Managua. The impetus for the trip is to support the local Christian schools association by helping refurbish some computers and training a group of 15-25 Christian school computer teachers, with whom he'll be spending two days.

We're very excited to have him, and I'm also feeling the pressure at this point! We didn't find out until a few weeks ago that he would be coming, so preparations have been maid in a hurry. This post is mainly to ask for your prayers during the next two weeks while Derek is here. He's coming tomorrow, November 23, and leaving December 4. Lots of things will have to go right in terms of logistics: power, transportation, food, housing, health, safety, and more. I know that it is all in the Lord's hands, but I also know that more people raising this trip before the Lord the better! Please pray for the hearts and minds of all of those who will hear Derek speak. Please pray for the translators, who will have their work cut out for them, and pray for Derek as he leads various workshops. Pray that we'll be able to make some valuable connections with Christian educators. And remember me as well, as I try to coordinate everything to the best of my ability so that God will be lifted up and his name known more fully in more places.

I uploaded a few photos from the most recent training I did with the Christian computer teachers. In the same album are photos of my week in Santa Lucia where I did a training with the farmers there through our partner ACJ (YMCA). We trained them to use our video equipment and then asked them to make a film about their community. Hopefully I'll get a chance to share more about that later. For now here are the pictures...

By the way, we call the group of teachers "RedProCom" which means Network of Christian Computer Teachers. I guess it could be NetComTea in English. Oh, and I just realized that I do have the photos from the Video trip and the computer training separated. Here they are:

RedProCom 2


PV Santa Lucia