The Seed is Planted and Quickly Grows

This spring, I took a fantastic, intensive 15 week course at my church called Perspectives on the World Christian Movement. It took place on Sunday evenings from 5-8 PM, and I learned a whole lot. On March 27th we had a speaker from Wilmington, Delaware named Jan Bean. She spoke about Global Communities and mentioned her work in Africa. She is one of the people who runs a group called Compassion Corps, sending teams to Egypt, Mali, Senegal, Tunisia, Uganda, Morocco, and Liberia. Jan mentioned that this summer she was leading a team to Liberia to do teacher training. My ears perked up instantly, and I was interested in hearing more. After the meeting, I spoke with Jan and asked her if there was any room on the team for this summer. Not only was there room but they had been hoping that one more person would join to give them a team of ten. They were looking for a teacher who had some technology skills and some seminary training. As it turns out I hit the bulls eye on all three accounts. Within a few days I had applied and been accepted to go on the trip. I signed up to go to Liberia for two weeks (where the teacher training is taking place) but soon heard that some of the team was staying to do some work in Morocco. The nature of the work lines up very well with what I had studied in the Perspectives course so I signed up to stay on for the extra two weeks in Morocco. I leave on June 23rd and get back on July 23rd.