The end is in sight

The countdown has begun and our LDC will soon be coming to an end. Delegates have written their "passion statements" and goals that will help them to put these rich weeks of teaching into practice when they return to their own nations next month. With only a few days left, we've begun a process of debriefing and looking back at the many wonderful things that we've done and learned during these forty days together. We've booked out the whole restaurant at a nearby garden centre for a special celebration meal tomorrow, when we'll also be having a sort of "graduation" and commissioning time. This usually includes encouraging times of praying for each other, as well as times of laughter as we look back at the funnier aspects of the school.

We'll evaluate as a staff team on Friday and then the weekend will be full of many trips to and from the airport. By the middle of next week, all of the staff will have headed home too, and only a few of us will be left here in Spain for the summer months. Enquiries have already become coming in, though, for next year's LDC, and so I'll be catching up on some email correspondence and admin during June, before taking some holiday time when my family comes to Spain at the end of the month.