Second day... end of first impression worries :)

Today started out with a little bit of a trip trying to locate the nearest Starbucks. It's not quite as common here in Warrington, PA as it is in Albuquerque where there's at least one on every major street and you only have to drive about 5 minutes before you come across one. John, the only RACEr staying at our host home who's over 25 and therefore the only one able to drive our rental car, patiently drove Sydney and me through town until we saw one, at which point Sydney and I both yelled and pointed a little overenthusiastically (you must understand that our hostess's mother is the one who makes the coffee here and it's a little weak).

Coffee and scones in hand, we began our day with a little worship service, singing to guitar music and hearing out of the Word of God from Bob Heywood, a man with a loud, booming voice and a passionate message. He spoke out of 2 Corinthians 5:11-21, and gave a great reminder of the message and the absolute power of the Gospel. One thing I've already grown to appreciate about World Team is that everything begins and ends with the Gospel, not with numbers or philosophies or anything that's secondary to work in missions. They emphasize to us that we need to be preaching the Gospel to ourselves every day or we easily forget the power behind the cross that allows us to live free, grace-filled lives.

After that, we talked briefly about different fields, and areas of service. I asked a question about teaching, and the gal that was giving the presentation, Sara, had worked as a teacher in Africa for a few years. I talked with her over lunch about the different requirements for being a teacher in an MK school, and she gave whole bunch of helpful advice about getting a license through a Christian organization (ACSI or something like that... she e-mailed the info to me so I can look over it later), and using substitute teaching as a way to gain some experience. I was pretty excited :).

Then we covered all kinds of things in different sessions like discipleship, teamwork, working with different family dynamics (being singled, being married, having kids) and how people from different "stages" of life should work together. It still feels like a lot of information overload. I'm a little exhausted and overwhelmed still, but they assured us they wouldn't be testing us over it at the end of the week so that's a relief haha :).

Tomorrow the real fun begins, the long days of assessment, so I'm off to bed to get some rest and let my brain reboot.