Heeeere's Dominic!

As I sit here and reflect on our Teacher Training which has absolutely consumed my life for the last 3 weeks, I am amazed how God puts together people and places for what He is already doing.  When Emily left Helene last year, I admit some anticipation about the 2009 schoolyear.  As I returned and we opened the school, it seemed her presence was everywhere, in everything I picked up or moved, "the memories were so thick, you could swat them away like flies"(sorry, that line from "Field of Dreams" was appropriate!).  But over the last few weeks, our times in the afternoon have become a new sense of what we are doing here in the Helene Christian English School.  A big part of the success in our training this year is due to the Lord sending a young man named Dominic Alvarez.  Dominic is a talented guy, very articulate, sensitive listener and exactly what we needed for training, an animated speaker.  We wondered how our island teachers would react to a "man teacher" in our midst.  They love him!  Everything from his Gameshow Review to his pictures on the board to our very serious moments in the scripture about how Jesus was a teacher, too.  How I miss Em, but thank you, Lord, that Dominic is here.