Saturday Evening

Oh my, it's already Saturday evening! It has been a busy two days. We started out the day yesterday morning (Friday) by stopping by the market to get some vegetables for the veggie tray Elsa wanted me to make for snack time at the second Shepherd Leader seminar. They are trying to be healthier in their snacks - and I was surprised that the vegetables went very quickly! Also had some Ranch dip to go with, some store-bought cookies and some sweet biscuits a lady in the church had made.   

Then we had to stop by Ink to get more copies made for the seminar - more people came than we had planned for.  We went to Cornerstone to do some more work in the library, then back home to cut up the vegetables and get ready to go back to San Narciso. 
The Second night of the Shepherd Leader seminar went very well - there were over 50 people that came for the second night.   There was much discussion at the end -and the men seemed to be encouraged and challenged by the material Dale presented. They seemed to be anxious to go back to their churches and have further discussion with their fellow elders.
We arrived back home just before 11 pm. It was a short night - I think we lost an hour of sleep on both sides of the clock.

We were up early to make the 50 minute drive to Orange Walk where the School Board Governance seminar was held at New Life Presbyterian School. This seminar was also well attended - around 40 representatives from the 9 Presbyterian schools were there along with the Education Commission of presbytery. principals, school board members, and some others with an interest in the subject matter. We got started almost 45 minutes later than planned waiting for people to arrive.

There was much interaction with the audience, and it was a productive and encouraging meeting . We had a lunch break at noon - rice and beans, stew chicken, fried plantain and cokes.

The seminar ended around 2:45 with the Education Commission committed to having more meetings to discuss the one-board system and to meeting with the Ministry of Education to see if it is a system they could work with.    Thank you for your prayers.

We are pretty exhausted - Dale more after three intensive days of speaking.  We plan to relax this evening - maybe go into town a little later to Cactus Plaza for some salbutes!