ministry update

The other night Trev and Kristen met with Layo and Luchi (the national directors) and Alvin and Sylvia (staff we are working with on our campuses) to discuss basically everything that's not going okay on our team, on these campuses, with the ministry...not to sound like debbie downer, but it was a lot of stuff. Our team of 5 had been facing mounting frustrations in regards to communication, a lack of vision, a lack of unity, and a general misunderstanding on the part of the national staff in regards to our actual role here in El Salvador. Right now we really have no authority or empowerment with this ministry - and it's been quite crippling. Luckily, words were exchanged in love, gentleness, and grace with our staff. They have such great hearts for students to come to know Christ; we just need to rethink the best way to do that on these campuses.

Tonight we are going to do ministry (bible study groups) at UTEC, and then we're meeting with Alvin and Sylvia to discuss options for completely overhauling the Friday leadership "planning" meetings. This will basically be the first time we will get to voice our opinions, our ideas, and brainstorm together as a team in creating a vision for the student leaders. Needless to say - it's all quite exciting! We want to work together, to learn from each other, to hear each other...

I pray that God would be faithful to lay his will over our own - that we wouldn't pursue our own agenda or try to do this in our own power, but that we would be continually seeking the Lord for a wondrous vision for UFG and UTEC.

It's been an interesting journey thus far - and we're all pretty positive that there's a ton of work left to go, but we praise God for the work that He's done and is continuing to do here!!