Day #2 Update [October 14]

Dave was up at 5:30am today.  Janet and Maria, two ladies that have cooked for Dave and our teams before, prepared breakfast for the group which also included Pastora Petronila (Pastor of the church where today's CBSI training is being held) and Josue, one of her church leaders.  The team arrived at Hermanos in Cristo church by 8am where church members were already serving breakfast to participants.  The Community Bible Study International (CBSI) Children and Youth training began after breakfast, at 8:30am.  61 people from 7 different churches were there at starting time this morning.  

After this training, the churches will be ready to begin using the CBS materials with their children and youth.  Up to this point, they have only been trained to use the materials with adults, so this will greatly expand their sharing of the Gospel.  Delia, the daughter of the Nicaragua CBSI National Director, and her husband Saul, are conducting the training today.  They indicated they will be leaving a flash drive at the end of the training that will contain the materials the churches need for the children and youth to begin their study of Genesis.  The churches all plan to begin their children's programs this week!

Members of Hermanos in Cristo church served a special "typico Nica" lunch at 12:30pm and the training concluded for the day at 5pm.  After several trips to take home people who lived the farthest away, they were back at Verb* about an hour later.  At dinner, Dave, Regan, and Blanca had a productive time learning more about some of the happenings with the overall ministry of CBS in Nicaragua from the CBSI trainers, Delia and Saul.  They were back at V*rbo around 10pm to get some rest for the next day of training.