Our five weeks of preparing for class, staff and field meetings and working on seminary publications has come to a close, and our field beach day officially closed out the "summer". (Don't get me wrong...it's still 110 degrees...just the end of summer break at the seminary :)
Matt preached at a large church downtown this morning, and all of our students are coming back to the campus today or first thing tomorrow morning. Tomorrow is day one of student retreat/student orientation, so we'll be on campus from 8 am until almost 8 pm, and then another long day Tuesday. Class starts on Wednesday! Due to all of the storms, there is a possibility that our two visiting professors will not be able to get in for classes Wednesday, at which point Matt will be teaching more this week than previously expected!
We are very excited to have all of the students back, and to meet our 15 new students (they will make up Stacey's English class). It will also be wonderful to be back on a more normal schedule...it's been difficult to schedule in family time and down time these past weeks as meetings and summer ministries have taken place at all different times. We'll have some pictures up this week of our student body!!!
Thank you for all of your prayers for past week of meetings, and please continue to pray for our students, as many of them have travelled hours to return to campus.
New beginnings are always exciting! What a great priviledge it is to invest in lives that will multiply the Kingdom. May God grant you abundant joy in the midst of the ordinary schedule.
ReplyDeleteLots of Love,
Charlie