Week 11

This quarter is a short quarter, we normally have 12 weeks of lecture, but because of Christmas, and a change in schedule earlier this year we have one less week. This also means that the teams that are about to head out will be gone for eight weeks rather than the normal 7.
Yesterday I had the privilege of teaching in the DTS, a session on servant leadership. When I was in SBF I did an in depth study on the life of Jonathan. His life is such an example of leadership. I enjoyed being able to go back and study again a teaching I'd done in the past. Definitely never stop learning! We focused on some keys to good leadership. Humility, Courage, Loyalty, Obedience, Confidence in God, and Risk, laying down our lives to serve others.
As I pondered I was absolutely struck by the way that Jonathan laid down his right, in the natural to be king. He was the heir to the throne, but human right. From the outside looking in for him to give up his place and stand behind David was absolutely crazy. His fear of God and understanding of God's authority is something I want to recognize more and more in my own life. So when in the natural something may seem logical- I'll still go with what God has said.
I'll have the week of Christmas off, and will be coming home! Looking forward to a week of rest. I would like to see whoever I can, but I know with the busy-ness of the season it's not all that conducive to a good cup of coffee with everyone! As amazing and fun as that would be!
The following week we start staff training for the winter quarter. I will be staffing our Snowboarders DTS this winter! We currently have about 30 students registered and potentially there will be more.
Stay tuned for some "info" blogs..I've been considering spending some time on my blog to go into some of these things ...like what does it really mean to "staff" a school? What does my day look like? How do we function day to day, what does a student learn? what is the point of doing a DTS? Why take 5 months of your life to spend here? Questions like that! If you have a specific one you'd like me to answer I'd Love to include it so let me know!