Going To Ghana?
I got a call from John R. yesterday; he wanted to know if I would like to go to Africa this spring. Ghana, to be specific. Actually, I'd really like to do that.
There's a national CEF workers' conference, and they're looking for someone to teach seminars on puppetry. So I asked for some of the details. They're looking for a one hour seminar, repeated three times over the course of three days. "What language will they be speaking?" I asked.
"French."
"So I'd be speaking through a translator?"
"Well, unless you got JD to do the teaching..."
(in case you don't know, JD is my French speaking puppet, who also happens to be John's favorite of my puppets.
)I've done puppetry seminars at Christian Education Conferences before (by the way, I'm going to be teaching a couple of puppetry seminars at the CE Conference in Southern Maine this spring), and in an hour I feel like I've just barely skimmed the surface of what needs to be taught. I can't imagine trying to productively teach a useful seminar on puppetry in a situation where I've only got an hour, and it has to be translated, which means in reality I'm doing a half-hour seminar.
So, sadly, I had to give John my regrets on that one. I'd love to take another trip to Africa, but if I make trips like that I want to make sure that they'll be a productive use of my time and money.
That subject actually came up last night at youth group; one of the teens asked me if we were going to be "doing a missions trip" any time. I said that I was exploring a couple different options, but for me the most important thing is that I don't want to take our teens on a missions trip just for the sake of taking a missions trip; I want to make sure that we are going somewhere that we will be put to work in a way that is valuable to the mission.
Posted On Oct 13, 2005 at 12:12 AM
On Oct 30, 2005 Trent wrote: It has been too long. To bad Ghana couldn't be more productive. That might be a great reunion tour. John mentioned the possibility to me. I haven't given it a lot of thought, but that would be fun. Except this time, "I" get the double bed, YOU get the floor.
Doug Replied: Woah! It's Trent! So you ARE still alive!
So, you might be going to Ghana?
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