Faith Goals for our CCI/Latin America's Teacher Training Event in Costa Rica

My dear prayer warrior:

Our “prayer compass”

I have provided you with a guide to help direct your prayers this month since I am currently in Costa Rica co-leading with Bob Sabean and our teaching team the Institute for Forming Instructors Feb. 1-14, 2009 (teacher training). This event is much anticipated and is attended by a dozen students coming from eight different countries of Latin America.

Pray with us for its purpose to be filled:

Lord, may each graduating instructor return home and when someone asks him how his trip went he may heartfully respond:

“I am convinced, equipped and ready to train camp directors to create their own Bible Study curriculum for their campers to delve into the Bible and learn how to apply God’s Word to their daily lives.”

To further guide your prayers, we have arranged our faith goals around the four cardinal points, they are the desired outcomes or results to pray for. Please pray with us for the next two weeks on the basis of what we have written, knowing that we are making our best efforts but it’s the Lord who gives the growth.

Faith Goals for the IFI-3 (Feb. 1-15)

For the instructor:

• We see in faith, that the instructors are living Christi-centered lives, evidenced in all areas of their lives, product of their interaction with God’s Word on a personal level and in community with others (they study the Word in groups of four.)
• In James 1:22-25 God compares His Word with a mirror. The study of God’s Word shows you your virtues and faults. The instructor who presents him or herself as a proud “know-it-all” or superior to others it like a man who looks at his face in a mirror ²⁴and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. ²⁵But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.

South: The camp counselors and campers

• We see, in faith, the instructors inspiring the camp counselors to learn how to use Bible Encounters in Community (BEC) with the goal that the Bible changes the future decisions and actions of the campers.

• We see, in faith, campers who open God’s word with confidence, studying it as a part of their daily living, reading it like a love letter that comforts and teaches as well as an authority that confronts.

North: Those in authority over them

• We see, in faith, instructors promoting a counterculture involving indepth study of the Bible as fruit of their ample use of BEC in camps, Sunday School, at home, etc.
• We see, in faith, instructors overcoming any and all obstacles in order to teach this course back home in their respective countries, numerous times, and as they do so following the guidelines CCI Latin America has established.

East: Co-workers, peers

• We see, in faith, instructors returning to their Nacional CCI Associations, refreshed, rejuvenated and energized, seeking to influence others with what they learned, raising the standard of excelence in their teaching and surrounding themselves with others in order to form a team to strengthen their Association.

Thank you for supporting us in prayer, we know that God moves in response to the prayers of His people,

Lisa

Our teaching team: Bob Sabean, Gloria Garcia (Mexico), Carlos Baca (Honduras), Norma Canales (Honduras), Xenia Sanchez (El Salvador), Bessy Macotto (Argentina) and Robert Bruneau (Panama)