Today we were on our way to the school by 7:30 am. I spent 5 hours working with Elsa on the Quickbooks. We are making progress! Dale spent the morning with Chayo looking for school board members so they could call a school board meeting in the afternoon. Dale was also able to arrange several meetings with the General Manager (of the Presbyterian Schools) and the education commission of the presbytery. Texting is big here. It is much cheaper to send texts than to make phone calls.
After dropping Elsa off in town so she could run a few errands , be went back to the Zantinghs in time for a late lunch of corn tortillas, refried beans, salsa, & shredded chicken (make your own soft tacos).
We just returned from an evening with Elsa and Alvaro and the boys. It was a very encouraging time of learning how God is working in their lives. Alvaro is growing in the pastorate and showing an understanding of how to lead men and bring about unity. He is working with ruling elders and men who desire to be elders in several churches. He constantly talks about important it is to know God and who he is - that is central to our faith. He has started reaching out in to their village by doing community projects, they have a strong youth group, Elsa has a growing women's group.
Aldair (their oldest) is very interested in music. We were able to get a taste of that enthusiasm Sunday night at the joint worship service where he led in a couple songs with his youth group. (he has self taught himself to play the guitar and does a very good job!) His desire is to be a musician and use it to share the gospel in song. He just completed his second year at Cornerstone.
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