The Willem

The End of an Edad

// February 4th, 2010 // Life, Reflection

Tomorrow morning is my last day of Spanish classes at Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara. That means no more $400 payments for 3/4 of a class, 30-35 more hours of free time (20 hours of class-time, plus 1-2 hours of transportation 5 days a week, plus the 5ish hours of homework per week), better sleep habits, better eating habits, more Bible reading, more prayer, more time for my SAGU classes, more time with my housemates, and one giant ministry field I basically no longer have access to.

Yes, that sums it up nicely, I think. The last point to me is the most poignant, and the most frustrating. We’ve been on that campus for four months in a controlled environment with a captive audience of international students and professors and we simply don’t have the fruit to show for it that we should have. Perhaps that’s because we only started seriously considering it a mission field over the last month, not really praying for the campus or the students or the professors until recently. Perhaps it’s because we didn’t invest fully into the lives of other students there until the last month or so. Either way, we’re fixing both and we won’t be forgetting.

Loree (one of my housemates) has a beautiful vision for a revival to break out on the giant plaza on the campus, shown below. I’ve been playing soccer with international students twice a week and I get to continue doing that for quite some time, thankfully. Other students are joining the theater club, volleyball, and playing ultimate frisbee. We have several students coming over to our house for the Superbowl this weekend, as well. We’re building relationships, casting vision, and praying fervently and frequently for everything about this place.

Not a big update tonight, and not exactly prose, but I just wanted to mark the end of this time as a transition, rather than with a mark of finality.