ESI begins

As many of you know we have been waiting for Equiping Servants (ESI) to begin and it finally has. Tomás and Nancy arrived last September from Bolivia and have spent some learning Ecuadorian culture and developing relationships with pastors and leaders in churches. We started the first ESI group  on Tuesday 7th February with 12 guys and it looks like the Thursday group will be 13 or 14 that will continue for the following three years.

I am really excited about this, please pray that this will be a group of men who will want to grow leaders for Christ. It's a pretty rigorous course, with homework each week including journal type work and readings. Punctuality is required...more than 10 minutes late counts as a no-show. Three no-shows over the semester puts you out of the course. The course includes a book set each semester.

It's been great to see so many people coming to use the library resources already to complete their work and also to talk through what they are learning with Tomás (pictured standing). There are Facebook messages flying around about ESI homework and that's also generating interest from others who might be future ESI potentials.

After what seems like a long lead time of getting a space ready that will be a multi-purpse training centre for people to grow in their understanding and maturity in their walk with the Lord, it is great to see it functioning in such a tangible way!