Planning for classes

Well this upcoming week marks the laborious process of planning what I'm going to do for the next year, and the next two weeks. It's one of those things where I don't even know where to start? So I'm just chipping away at my classes little by little. Today I planned out what I'm going to say for open house to the parents. It shouldn't be too hard, I just have to talk for about 5 minutes to each class of parents about my expectations of the students in the class. I need to be thinking about special projects and papers that would be useful in my classes as well, not exactly sure what I'm gonna do there either. It's tough with Bible as well because I only teach the same class 2 days a week in Bible. And my Philosophy and Sociology classes are 3 days a week.

I'm thinking about doing what Dr. Zuber did in some classes (my favorite theology teacher at Moody), coming in one day and preaching to them and then adding that material in with the rest of the material covered in class that would possibly be on a big test or exam. It will certainly take alot of preparation and work, but with the Lord's help, and a continous desire to be hungry for learning and teaching His Word, I am excited about preaching. I also get a chance to preach 3 different times during the year in chapel. Chapel is once a week, and they assign me topics for the first 2. I'm preaching on courage, and responsibility and the 3rd one is free, I get to choose.

The church that the school is affiliated with (Assemblies of God) is not as charasmatic as I thought they were going to be. Nobody has even been speaking in tongues in the service, which kind of surprised me. Although worship is always very lively, and passionate, Hondurans at this church definitely know how to groove, and worship. One of the pastors at the church said that they were in the middle of a revival. 5000 people go to the church now and it's only 10 years old. The pastor said that they have to find a way to baptize 800 people at their next service for baptisms, which is amazing! They also had the countrywide missions conference for Honduras last weekend. Apparently not many showed up, I wasn't there but I guess the rest of the country either couldn't afford to come, didn't hear about it, or it wasn't a priority to them. Regardless I was looking through the books at the Book sale and I thought it was definitely funny and sad to see John MaCarther's book on leadership being sold, with a couple other books by Charles Stanley, and the Holy Spirit by Charles Ryrie? Next to those books was Benny Hinn's book "Good Morning Holy Spirit" an interesting selection.

I hoping to really get alot done these next 3 days and to be really well prepared for class to start. Thanks for reading and praying for me.