Who am I?
- gordon elliott
- Monrovia, Liberia
- I live in Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa with my wife and youngest son. We are recently arrived in Liberia where we are serving as missionaries with Evangelical Church Missions working under the Liberia Evangelical Mission. For most of the last thirty years we have served under ECM in Bolivia, South America. We are the happy parents of four children and the proud grandparents of two grandchildren.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
On Loan To The States
Just a quick post to get up to date. We are currently in Minnesota. This past Monday we flew up to Miami and spent the night. Then on Tuesday we were on to Indianapolis and the opportunity to see Daniel and Naomi, Dori and Niki's mom. Then on to Iowa for the weekend to participate in Molly Treiber's and Bryan Canny's wedding. Now we are in Minneapolis where we will be staying with Mark Frink until general conference, more or less. On June 12th Vicente Ticona, our national church president, will be flying to the US to participate in General Conference. I will be traveling down to Miami on the 11th to meet him and help shepherd him to Minneapolis. I am looking forward to having Vicente here with us and to travel some with him in the couple of weeks before the conference. I will try to keep brief updates during this time. Thanks for reading and praying.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
The Impertinence of Learning
Today it is cold in Santa Cruz. I know you will laugh when I tell you how warm it has been today. But it is cold - a little warmer outside than in but cold. It has been in the lower 50's at night and only in the mid to lower 60's today. Laugh if you will but I stand by my statement. It is cold.
I am wondering if the cold will continue tomorrow and on into the evening. You see, tomorrow evening I have class with my students at the Villa Alegre (Happy Town) Church. The problem is, there is no front door on the church. For that matter, there are no windows either. And when it is cold the students suffer. It's hard to think, read and study the Bible and take a test when your fingers are cold, your feet are cold, your ears are cold and, well, I suspect you get the point. And yet my students will be expected to do just that tomorrow evening. It will be the last session of this class on the General Epistles and, yes, a final test is called for. The learning process can be impertinent.
It amazes me that most of the students come under such conditions. They know it will be cold. They know that they will sit in the cold, feel the wind blowing through the church, yet they come. Their desire for learning the Word is amazing. And yet I know that they also are longing for the day when their church will have the luxury of a door and windows to help keep the cold out. As the teacher, I'll appreciate it too. Wouldn't you?
The night these pictures were taken was a worm evening and not the recent cold. Notice the empty window frames in the wall of the church.
I am wondering if the cold will continue tomorrow and on into the evening. You see, tomorrow evening I have class with my students at the Villa Alegre (Happy Town) Church. The problem is, there is no front door on the church. For that matter, there are no windows either. And when it is cold the students suffer. It's hard to think, read and study the Bible and take a test when your fingers are cold, your feet are cold, your ears are cold and, well, I suspect you get the point. And yet my students will be expected to do just that tomorrow evening. It will be the last session of this class on the General Epistles and, yes, a final test is called for. The learning process can be impertinent.
It amazes me that most of the students come under such conditions. They know it will be cold. They know that they will sit in the cold, feel the wind blowing through the church, yet they come. Their desire for learning the Word is amazing. And yet I know that they also are longing for the day when their church will have the luxury of a door and windows to help keep the cold out. As the teacher, I'll appreciate it too. Wouldn't you?
The night these pictures were taken was a worm evening and not the recent cold. Notice the empty window frames in the wall of the church.
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