POTENTIAL

One of the things I love about Cowman School - and there are many - is what an interesting mix of students we have here.  Our student population is predominantly Haitian, but we have students of American, Canadian, Korean, Dominican and Indian background.  When it comes to socio-economic status, too, our students run the gamut. Ages: three years old to teenagers. Different personalities. Different learning styles. And VERY different paths that all led, by God's grace, to Cowman.

And each morning Ms. Kate rings her bell at eight sharp and this crazy mix of kids spreads into eight different classrooms, each a place where Scripture is revered and proclaimed and Jesus Christ is lifted up.

It is, indeed, a beautiful thing.  We are a big, unusual family, striving to live under the headship of Christ. Together.

Today I am feeling a bit of excitement over something that is becoming an increasingly common occurrence here - the possibility of adding a few more students to the family mid-year.  At 1:30, I am scheduled to do some testing with a couple of brothers who are prospective students for my class.  They were born and raised in the U.S. but their father is Haitian and has answered a call from his father to return to Haiti and take over as director of a small university in Cap Haitien.  

After the testing is complete this afternoon, a school committee will review all the relevant information and decide 'yay' or 'nay'. The boys could be in class by this coming Monday. 

For my part, I am hoping and praying that Cowman and these young men will be a good fit. There's potential for a win/win scenario - the new students adding their unique personalities and gifts to the Cowman family and Cowman providing a valuable service to the brothers' immediate family.  

(By the way, it's not a lack of humility to say Cowman's service is valuable - there aren't any other schools in the north of Haiti offering a full-time English language-based education.  Or doing it in a Christian context. Some of our students travel an hour each way to learn at Cowman.) 

 Who can predict the POTENTIAL latent when God crosses peoples' paths? THAT is what gets me excited today.  

Praying for wisdom and discernment and that His will would be done.

It's like planting seeds and seeing what grows ...