Big Changes

Happy New Year!  Well, some changes are in store for me this year.  Yesterday, I received an email from Lidia, and we are clearly moving in different directions.  We have decided that we will not pursue a relationship this year.  She has her heart set on going to India this year and wants to focus on support raising for that and not me. 

I have also been thinking about my own experiences at La Palmera last year and while they were very great, I'm not a school teacher.  I am an even worse lab supervisor letting the kids get away with everything in the book, but I have learned some valuable lessons about discipline that hopefully will help me in the future. 

However, given all of these factors, I feel I will begin seminary THIS FALL as originally I had intended.  God has given me peace about my study fears and I even found myself wanting to dig deeper into the Bible a couple times before I left Bolivia, a positive sign.  At this point, assuming I am accepted, I am thinking I will enroll for the Masters of Divinity program at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.  It is a 3 year program. 

I will be returning to Bolivia in February and will take six months to help transition the computer roles and youth ministry leadership to a Bolivian who can take over for me, since I am not sure I will return to La Palmera after seminary.  The Lord is really laying on my heart a desire to plant a university ministry and I would like to do that somewhere else, where there are more college students but I am definitely thinking it will be in Latin America unless God says no.   

Thank you all for your continued encouragement, and I am definitely enjoying my time of furlough.