Pizza, Swimming and Global Perspectives

We are well into our way of our first set of classes.  We have been able to have lots of our classmates over to apartment as we get to know them.  Two night ago we had a big pizza get together!  We all brought things to contribute and made several pizza's from scratch.  What a sweet time of fellowship it was. :)

Us in our classroom.

One of the responsibilities that we have here is to be part of the Afternoon Work Program (AWP) 4 days a week.  All of the students are split into one of two teams: the cleaning team or the project team, and these teams rotate each month to give each student some variety.  Mitch is on the cleaning team this month, and I am on the project team.  The cleaning teams clean everything on campus, not only of the Missionary Training Centre campus but also the NTMC head office.  The projects teams work on building, landscaping, and any other maintenance needs that we can help with.

the sunrise over the lake on campus

The fall weather is slowly creeping in here, but the last couple of days we have had very hot and very humid weather reappear!  Yesterday after we all finished our AWP most of our classmates and us went for a very refreshing swim in the lake!  It was so fun!  A lot of the youth, either staff or students kids, were swimming with us too!  

Today, and for the next two days, we will be attending the Global Perspectives seminar here.  NTM reps from all over the country have come and we all get to gather together and learn about what it means to be globally focused.  Some of the topics discussed today were: women in ministry (a very different view-point than normally discussed), how to choose a field and we had a time of prayer which centred around praying for more labourers to join with us!  What a sweet time of prayer that was!

We greatly enjoy seeing what God is doing in the world around us, and we look forward to the next two days to hear more about what God is doing... :)