Leadership, only a farm away!

Indeed some time has past since my last entry. And though I am sorry to not have written last week, I can’t say that I missed it too much. That is I really enjoyed being out in the bush a bit, missing all the regular, mundane things of living with media and such. Well sometimes not very mundane more like obnoxious. So yes I was out with the Murdocks, Matt, Sarah, Riley, Duncan, and Bridget. Matt and Sarah are missionaries with “Ministry of Jesus” and have a bible and agricultural school about an hour and half north of Natitingou. It was real nice to spend five days there. It was quite eventful. I went to do some leadership training for the students at the school. I had the privilege of setting up a low ropes challenge course, as well as doing an intensive training time, call the Gauntlet or translating into French, called the Rolling Fire (that’s the closest wording). It is to push each one to their limits both physically and mentally, and to train how to be a good leader in all situations and scenarios (well as many as possible). Most of them told me after that at the beginning they thought the whole thing was crazy, not very useful, but by the end at our concluding debriefing, they all admitted how much it helped them, for that I thank God.