El Salvador is a very small nation but it has an excellent communication network, very good major roads and a large international airport. It is the perfect place for gathering over 50 students, all at different levels of accademic competence, from very different backgrounds, to hear lectures on Homiletics, Theology, Church History and so on without power points and other audio visual aids, in english being translated into spanish, sharing a microphone in a school next to the football stadium during a needle derby match. The cost,
£7.50 per student per day to feed and accomodate,
£30 averaged out per person present to travel to the centre.
£4.0. per person per day on administration
These very rough figures betray the reality that over this week in El Salvador a group of very committed christians are learning in an atmosphere of willing expectation.
HOWEVER, none of these people have anything that they are being asked to give up in order to achieve this creative activity in their home country. Their loyalty is to learning, serving better their communities, being better pastors and disciples of Jesus Christ.
Tom Quenet
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