college kids home on break

Last night we had a meeting with staff and our 15 college students who are home on sem break. The meeting covered some discussion about education and the what people mean when they say "future". The kids gave their insight to a bank advertisement which says "no degree, no future". the answers varied among them, but all the kids understood this to be partly true, depending on how we define future. their ideas were turning as we sat around and challenged the meaning of a widely used saying. One student said, "you can look at this logically and say that our worth is based on our financial success and ability to provide for a family, or we can look about it spiritually and find our worth in God, as we remember the necessity of education to live well in this country."

We want our kids to succeed in school and become productive well equipped professionals who are sharing Christ and making disciples within their given fields and lives. Number one is the spiritual life and faith, and then part of that same person is an educated, successful part of the working force of the Philippines. So the staff and kids had a while to dialog about this concept of thinking that education is our measurement of worth.

Then, we oriented them to the in house leadership training they will have during sem break. Each college student will join a staff member to be mentored for a week as they learn that given job. Then the second week, the student will function as that staff member at CH.

The students were very excited as they elected each other to certain positions and then met with that staff member. The least likely of the students was chosen for the position of campus director, so we are all intrigued to see him run our staff meeting and discipleship next week! This morning the first voice I heard was one of our top students, he was on time and ready for work in the finance department with Ely!

I will update on how our week progresses with our college leaders!