Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Ken Farrington taught today on company culture.  Ken did a wonderful job.  Lots of discussion centered around this topic.

In the afternoon, we made company visits, and held small group discussions with students.  These ranged from visiting a new walnut tree farming operation to detailed discussions related to a large tennis and recreational academy struggling with getting their organizational structure right.

In the evening we returned to downtown to Grape Vine Church to attend their English As A Second Language class.  There was a total of 14 of us.  The discussions centered not only on helping the students with their conversational English, but a lengthy and detailed discussion centered around how do we know the Bible is true, and the Word of God.  They were very engaged, and provided an opportunity for us to each share our faith.

A very good day.  Hopefully, sleep will come more easily tonight for all of us.  More to come.

Tim

Pictures of our Q&A with the ESL class. Also I have included pictures of my visit to a new business. My comments:

Sometimes it just hits you between the eyes. As we were visiting a walnut orchard business today that had been a collective farm until the USSR fell in 1991, we saw what life was/is like for a lot of the world.

By the way, the six foot walnut tree below (where the guy in the red hat is measuring) was about 18” tall one year ago. The soil is so rich that the plants almost leap from the ground.

We ate at the original home where our students grandfather went insane after the Soviets took his farm (1939) and made him work on the collective farm.

Finally we met with a group of young English students and answered the question “How do you know that the Bible is true”.  (Ya gotta be sharp over here).

Alan