Two New Schools!

This has been a busy week in Las Margaritas. The Leadership Formation School started on Monday with six students.  All of them are graduates of our last DTS.

The LFS is running concurrently with our new DTS, which is starting classes on the 14th. Yesterday was the welcome potluck for both schools, and today is DTS orientation, and the afternoon will be a fellowship time at the river.

Jen and Alex Cabezon are doing a wonderful job of leading our students. The LFS students are doing hands-on training by managing all of the day-to-day arrangements for the DTS. They will also oversee the outreach, which means they will be learning an incredible amount of both theory and skills. The DTS classes will be in the morning, with the LFS students serving, and then the afternoon will be service/work/small groups for the DTS and classes for the LFS.

From our start just four years ago, with only Jen, Alex and Yariani, we have certainly come a long way! At the potluck we had a total of twelve students and eight staff, plus volunteers. Present were Wounaan, Embera, Americans, Costa Ricans, with English, Spanish, Wounmeu and Embera languages. God has certainly enlarged our borders. We are stretching out our tents!

Jennifer Cabezon and the LFS students

The 2015 DTS. One student missing!