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Currently I'm in my Junior year at Moody Bible Institute in downtown Chicago. I am finishing up my degree in Elementary Education. The program is pretty much the hardest elementary ed program you could imagine, but I love it a lot because it's the only place I know of that you can be a Bible and El Ed major at the same time. We work really hard to that end, but it is very cool to be some of the first people to learn an integrative philosophy of Christian education. I can't wait to start practicing all this; and the countdown is on, because in a little over a year I will be doing full time student teaching.

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Well, it is now Mission's Conference week down here at Moody Bible Institute. Mission's Conference means a lot of things to us third year students. It means first, a week without having to go to class-- and no one can complain about that. It means second, a week where more missionaries than you could possibly imagine telling you why God's plan for your life most likely includes living in a mud hut somewhere and eating bugs. It means third, a lot of homework.
Yes, this week I will be reading a little book called "The Torah's Vision of Worship" and attempting to write a book review on it. FYI, a book review is apparently vhastly different from a book report, and I guess I will be finding out how before I write it. Anyways, it really should be a fun week down here. Of course, they will bring in the resident crazy speakers like George Verwer (if anyone has ever heard of him then you know what I mean), but they always have some really cool stuff we get to hear as well.

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Enjoy Missions Week, Leigh. I know you always do. As far as eating bugs and living in a mud hut...isn't that how you spent your summer this year? Maybe you could be a speaker.

1:05 PM  
Blogger Auntie Eisel said...

Hey, I was reading your comments on my blog and I'm not sure what to tell you about costumes. I alway's love to dress up as a princess. Mostly I just love to wear dresses. If you like dresses, maybe you could just find an old prom dress or and then wear a shawl with it and a crown or something like that. If you'd rather not wear a dress, I was thinking you might make a cute "Mary Ann" from Gilligans island. You could just put your hair in pigtails and then find a cute summer outfit. But other than that I don't have many ideas. Usually it takes me a while to come up with anything. =)

8:27 PM  
Blogger Auntie Eisel said...

Sorry about the mistakes. I forgot to proof-read it. you know, the " ' " in "alway's" :) and the extra "or". Oh well.

8:29 PM  
Blogger Lindsay Ward said...

So, how did Mission's Week go? Are you about to take off to Africa and spend your time eating bugs? I have a friend that was a missionary's kid. He actually ate bugs while living in Africa and once while living in Waco, TX (to prove he would eat them to doubting friends).

10:28 AM  
Blogger CrazyUncle said...

I eat bugs here in PHX. And I'm not a missionary...just hungry. I do remember a quote from the Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts a few years ago (OK, over 30 yrs ago): Everyone everywhere is either a missionary or a mission field. Gotta go..just saw a yummy cricket.

2:06 PM  
Blogger Mimi and Poppy said...

It's time for you to blog again, but I do want you to know that Chicago is not "down" here. It's "up" here! Don't eat bugs, however I hear that locusts taste great with wild honey.

10:25 AM  

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