The first conference ended yesterday. I had some very sweet people in my group. Eugenia, the translator, was young and was the only person from her city to come. She’s not really a teacher, but she was head of a pre-school.

     Tiffany is a substitute teacher. She and her husband own a gourmet coffee shop in town. We had dinner there on Tuesday night. It was fabulous. Praying they can make a go of it.

     A pastor and his wife were also in our group. I think they went into a local school as guests to do the morals based curriculum in classrooms for teachers, but there was a language barrier, even with a translator.

     The local Cru staff member, Janice, in our group had been meeting with each of these people prior to the conference. She will follow up with them, so that gives me great comfort.

      Our content was about growing in Christ and helping others grow in Christ. The key to making disciples is finding people to whom you can pass on what you’ve learned, and who will then pass it on to others. Teachers at the conference are beginning to grasp this so they can figure out what it might look like in local contexts for them.