We recently held a city-wide teacher training conference. We rented an auditorium in the city. Two weeks before the event, we had to begin declining people who wanted to attend due to limited space.
The auditorium could only hold about a about 317 people seated. It was great to see the auditorium packed, but we were saddened to have to turn away about 200 people.
It was an all day event. At mid-day break, we served a meal.
Due to a lack of space, the people had to find any place they could to eat. Some ate on the steps leading to the floor below.
Our main speaker was Bruce Burkholder, the director of EBI in Sebring, Florida. EBI (Editorial Bautista Independiente) prints attractive Sunday School literature with sound doctrine in Spanish.
Gary and Penny Whipple were the first ones we wanted to invite for the conference. They are good at teacher training.
Gary and Penny were the distributors for EBI literature in Peru for many years and did a great job. When the radio ministry began in Lima, we made a coordinated transition to move the distributorshihp over to the hands of the radio ministry since it has the advantage of a greater outreach and exposure.
On the day of the conference we offered Sunday School literature at discount prices to all those who attended.
During the breaks, the tables of literatre were smothered.
The interest was high for good Sunday School materials that are hard to find in Peru.
We praise the Lord for EBI and all those who work in this ministry. Many teachers went home very happy with materials in their hands to help them teach God's Word more effectively.
Bro. Burkholder also brought a video crew to interview people and film snatches of the conference and the city of Lima. They filmed all they could in three days. Their goal is to produce a quality video that will help promote EBI in the production of quality Sunday School literature in Spanish at the lowest possible price. We cannot speak highly enough of this great ministry that is doing a marvelous job.
A total of about 40 volunteers from our church came and served at the conference.
We were so pleased with their service for the Lord.
They worked hard and enjoyed serving those who attended.
We also made a nice certificate for each atendee at the confernce.
Edward Zacarías presents a certificate to a lady who attended the conference.
Ruth helped prepared the certificates. She was also our photographer for the event. She is a hard worker! Cindy Castillo (left) is a missionary to Mexico City and also came to help. She was a special blessing in translating for the film crew and preparing interviews.
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