Today guests from all over Central America (and some from other Latin American countries) will begin arriving for seminario. We have already enjoyed a couple of brief visits with Juan Jose Flores from Ecuador, a Baxter alumnus involved in local church work in Ibarra and also involved at Quito SBS. Yesterday, we visited briefly with Jason Tenison on campus–he is from Park Plaza in Tulsa, working in the new effort at Talanga. The keynote speaker, Dr. Bob Hooper, arrived yesterday with his wife Bonnie, and we enjoyed both lunch and dinner with them–a delightful couple that we first met in Guatemala several years ago on a Pan American Lectureship.
Yesterday filled up with meetings fairly quickly, and today has its fair share of meetings as well, but I hope also to be able to give some final touches to my seminario class since I know the time will be even more limited once seminario begins.