We discussed general theology, the nature of God, more about the Trinitarian Triangle, etc. It turned out that the professor we had that day had been a Bible smuggler in his youth (into a country that is now no longer illegal to bring Bibles into). It wowed me big time when he described this as God's working in spite of him, when he was running this huge risk. He also recounted the following story:
He and his partner arrived with the hope that the person he needed to deliver the Bibles to would be there, but he wasn't. However, there was a note on the door in English that read, "Friends, Don't leave, will be back soon." He and his partner waited, and after a while the person they were smuggling the Bibles to arrived and explained, "I felt that God was telling me that there were Americans coming to make the delivery."
During a break, I went up, explained my interest in missions and we launched into conversation. He gave me a lot of good advice, referred me to one of his colleagues and told his colleague about me over lunch. So now I have a contact for any point in the future at which I might be ready to prepare for missions using seminary stuff.
During Mexico Prep that day, we discovered that the entire Compass group, consisting of people from all three teams, was putting together a team to perform the "everything" skit. My curiosity was piqued, and I stayed to watch the YouTube video and volunteer - to perform this with the big group and then again with my own small group. Having never seen the skit before, I didn't realize what I was getting myself into. Here's the Lifehouse Everything Skit. (Warning: not for 12-and-under year olds.
He and his partner arrived with the hope that the person he needed to deliver the Bibles to would be there, but he wasn't. However, there was a note on the door in English that read, "Friends, Don't leave, will be back soon." He and his partner waited, and after a while the person they were smuggling the Bibles to arrived and explained, "I felt that God was telling me that there were Americans coming to make the delivery."
During a break, I went up, explained my interest in missions and we launched into conversation. He gave me a lot of good advice, referred me to one of his colleagues and told his colleague about me over lunch. So now I have a contact for any point in the future at which I might be ready to prepare for missions using seminary stuff.
During Mexico Prep that day, we discovered that the entire Compass group, consisting of people from all three teams, was putting together a team to perform the "everything" skit. My curiosity was piqued, and I stayed to watch the YouTube video and volunteer - to perform this with the big group and then again with my own small group. Having never seen the skit before, I didn't realize what I was getting myself into. Here's the Lifehouse Everything Skit. (Warning: not for 12-and-under year olds.
There are all sorts of ways to perform this skit. In both the big group and small group we removed cutting, in the big group there were two girls for alcohol and in my small group there was one guy, in the big group there were two more girls for cigarettes and in my small group we omitted that part, etc. However, the general gist was the same, with some of the same features - boyfriend, money, alcohol, model, evil dude. I was a different role in each group, and I will not say which parts I played, only that after practicing with the big group, when teaching the small group, I asked them please not to make me do the same role.
Then we were ready to go.
Then we were ready to go.
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