Back to School...

Thought I would share this brief ministry experience with you that we had today:

I was working along with two other Mexican brothers this morning and one of them is learning Chinese and as their are many Chinese people in Mexico he has been expanding his ministry beyond just the English field. So this morning while he was conducting a study in Chinese, Miguel and I decided to visit a language school to see if it was possible to leave some English literature with either the teachers or any of the students.

As we entered the building we were met by an official looking gentleman who turned out to be one of the English teachers. At first he gave quite a negative response and said we were not allowed to come in, however after showing him the magazines he changed his attitude somewhat and began to explain that while he had been living in LA years before, he received the magazines regularly and had enjoyed reading them.

After a brief but friendly chat, we ended up leaving him with 6 magazines for him and the Students to read at their leisure. We thanked him for his time and left.

Back outside on the street we began walking off, only to discover the same man running down the street after us shouting at us to stop. As he approached he said "Can you come back please, the School Director wants to see you"... "Uh oh" we thought, "now we're in for it", perhaps he hadn't taken too kindly to our visit.

We were led up the stairs and into an office where the Director was sat and he told us to take a seat at his desk...in front of him were the magazines that we had just left with first gentleman. At this point his secretary got up and left the room, closing the door behind her. For the first time in a long time I felt like a naughty boy who was about to get a few strips torn off him for bad behavior. The Director proceeded to explain to us (Only in Spanish, he didn't speak any English but I was able to decipher bits and pieces until Miguel translated afterward) that his school was one of the best in the area. He told us what the curriculum entails, how the classes work and the type of students that enroll here. I was waiting for it, any minute, to hear the "and you're not welcome here" speech. To say that we were pleasantly surprised to be invited to come back next Tuesday for an hour to talk to the students during one of the classes is an understatement. Oh and would it be possible for us to bring along 10 English speaking friends so that the students could have one-one discussions with us!??

Needless to say, we let him know that we would be delighted to come back to talk to the students and sit in his air-conditioned classrooms for an hour.

We're busy getting some of the other pioneers lined up to come along with us and English copies of literature to hand out during class. We'll let you know how we get on!