JB Selecman writes... What's up from El Salvador. You all will be happy to know that it is still raining, Hotel Toleteka is still here, and the Christmas decorations are already out everywhere. Who would have thought, they are early for Christmas. We are having a great time. Last night Steve taught on Jesus vision for his disciples from Mark 1 and Luke 4, where Jesus tells the disciples the only thing he plans to make them into - fishers of men and how the strategy for that is played out in Jesus lifestyle of discipleship! Today was the first day of our teaching. We had four hours with their teachers and administrators today and two hours with their high school students. The teachers are all trying so hard to love their students and give them an education with a Biblical worldview. They had many questions and Steve and Quentin did an awesome job with them today. By the way, Quinton Lytle is a father of eight children (that is not a typo) who has homeschooled all his children. He has been a pastor and the principle for a school for inner city school kids who have been kicked out of public schools. He is now working with Downline full time and has worked in ministry in Memphis for 20 years. He worked for five years for JIFF (Juvenile Intervention Faith Based Followup). So you can imagine how helpful he is with the teachers.
Tonight begins the conference. It runs until Sat night. We will be teaching Discipleship as always and do 3 breakout small group sessions. They are really starting to understand discipleship. They have had some growing pains as the seek to live a lifestyle of discipleship and have many questions which is a great thing. It means they are trying and struggling with it and they are eager to learn more. Please pray for the perseverance and patience. On Sunday, we will preach 8 to 10 different sermons. Pastor M. asked us to preach on discipleship even from the pulpit to encourage the lay people in the churches to get involved with one on one relational ministries in their spheres of influence. Discipleship is really on his heart.
Pastor M. is doing great. He was so excited to see us and sends his love to all of you. He is already talking about next March when we come back. I am going to find out more about the elections and let you guys know. Right now he said, it looks like the communist party is leading in the poles. They are really worried about the election, because the govt could shut their school down. Please continue to pray for this.
Tonight begins the conference. It runs until Sat night. We will be teaching Discipleship as always and do 3 breakout small group sessions. They are really starting to understand discipleship. They have had some growing pains as the seek to live a lifestyle of discipleship and have many questions which is a great thing. It means they are trying and struggling with it and they are eager to learn more. Please pray for the perseverance and patience. On Sunday, we will preach 8 to 10 different sermons. Pastor M. asked us to preach on discipleship even from the pulpit to encourage the lay people in the churches to get involved with one on one relational ministries in their spheres of influence. Discipleship is really on his heart.
Pastor M. is doing great. He was so excited to see us and sends his love to all of you. He is already talking about next March when we come back. I am going to find out more about the elections and let you guys know. Right now he said, it looks like the communist party is leading in the poles. They are really worried about the election, because the govt could shut their school down. Please continue to pray for this.
