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Bob Sabean:
Fellow missionary with Latin America Mission and co-Senior Professor on the team (missionary in Costa Rica for 48 years) "As I sit here and look at our team of professors, I realize that I dreamt of having this caliber of leaders back in 1992 after our first Institute for Forming Instructors. How naïve was I back then to think we’d get quality like this after just one training event! But, the vision was right on, my timing was not! Ha, ha, ha. God knew the proper time of germination and maturation." |
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| Our multiculturalism is God's gift to the team and to those we will serve |
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| Bob explains to the team a bit of American history |
Fellow missionary with Latin
America Mission and executive director of CCI/LA: When Lisa presented the plan
for the Leadership Summit in 2010, I asked: Why
Pittsburgh? Now I see two things. First: We needed to leave our countries
to see Latin America, our home, as a whole, as a mission field.
Second: I realized after spending an afternoon at the Heinz Museum that Pittsburgh is a city of innovation and is multicultural! That’s exactly the spirit we want to foster amongst our team of professors: innovation and appreciation for the richness of our multiculturalism.
Second: I realized after spending an afternoon at the Heinz Museum that Pittsburgh is a city of innovation and is multicultural! That’s exactly the spirit we want to foster amongst our team of professors: innovation and appreciation for the richness of our multiculturalism.
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| Lisa explaining the unique aspects of Pittsburgh. |
Robert Bruneau:
We gathered around our guest teacher, Jim
Plueddemann, to lay hands on him, pray, thank him for his dedication to us
this week, and Robert said:
Of all the thousands of students Jim has had, God sent one in
particular to Latin America to work for CCI/LA. Twenty years later, fifteen
students return to the USA to continue to learn and now will return to Latin
America to continue the pilgrim journey, this silent revolution in Christian
Education, inviting others to join them to seek God’s glory in all they do.
Amen Robert, so be it, amen
and amen.
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| Lisa Anderson-Umaña earned her MA in education at Wheaton College with Dr Jim Plueddemann. His Christian philosophy of education undergirds all our texts in CCI Latin America. It was a privilege to have Dr. Plueddemann (now with Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where Lisa is presently a doctoral candidate) teach us for an entire week. |
3 comments:
Thank you Lisa for this. Pittsburgh was certainly one of the most happy places we have lived (not least because we were newly-weds!) It's a great city. Birmingham too is multicultural. People from all continents live and work here so the food and clothes in the shops all reflect this and give us insight into the way of life of others.1)
Our own apartment block (Queens College Chambers in 38 Paradise Street - isn't that a great address!) also reflects this. You never know who you will meet when you get into the elevator ('lift' in our language) and we always manage to have a talk with whoever is there even in sign language!
I am still writing monthly for the church in France even though we no longer live there.
I enclose something I wrote some years ago but was published this month. I usually do book reviews, but quite often they publish my Christian poetry.
Keep up the good work.
Love Aunt Jen x
Powerful stuff. God has done amazing things with the young girl from the North Hills. Your parents I know are proud of you and know your story of equipping others to carry on the mission of CCI. Congrats on all you have done and even more of a a legacy you leave in Victor and Valerie who have grown up in your example and this has helped shape their adult life. We expect great things from them as well. Carry on good and faithful servant. Little green pea.
Thanks, Lisa, for this report. How exciting that you had Jim Pluddemann as your teacher! Mary Anne also found him her most stimulating professor when she was in Wheaton Grad school.
Congratulations on the Team you and Bob have formed.
Jack
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