Ellen Stark Joins ESBS Staff!
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| Ellen Stark joins ESBS staff!!! |
Subscribe in a readerWe're pleased to announce that Ellen Stark will be joining our staff beginning this fall. Ellen is a current ESBS student and has been tearing this program to pieces (a good thing...:) since day one. She's a fantastic writer, she's got a huge heart for discipleship, and she's GREAT at inductive Bible Study.
Ellen has spent the better part of the last decade back and forth between Colorado and Mexico as she and her family have served in missions. She did a DTS with YWAM Brisbane, she speaks fluent spanish, she loves sewing (for real) and long walks on the beach (ok I made that one up).
Get to know Ellen a little by reading her weekly updates on our student blog (esbsblog.com)
Nathan Hughes guest teaching
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| Nathan Hughes: Montana dodgeball champion |
Subscribe in a readerWe're pleased to have one of Montana's finest with us for the week. Nathan Hughes, a full-time SBS staff member with the Montana SBS is here teaching Ezra and Nehemiah. Nathan is also a Canadian, which means currently there are 4 Canadians on campus at the ESBS. They're taking over: quick, throw snowballs.
We've got 5 more weeks before graduation, and everyone is in a great place. It's been an amazing year and I for one don't want it to end. I'm gonna lose two great climbing partners and 12 amazing students. Already though Im getting excited for next year. Pray with us that God will put just the right school together for this fall.
Tom
Ron and Judy Smith visit.
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| Ron and Judy Smith with Caleb Hartzler last winter (Byron and Eileen's son) |
We're so pleased to have Ron and Judy Smith with us for the next two weeks. Ron and Judy started the SBS program within YWAM in 1981, and they were hugely instrumental in helping plant the ESBS here at Camp Lurecrest in 2006.
Having Ron and Judy with us now is nothing short of miraculous, given where they've been and what they've experienced over the past 6 months:
While teaching last fall in Asia Ron was hospitalized with severe hemophilia. When Ron was admitted to the hospital his red blood cell counts were so low that doctors feared he was close to death.
After several days of recuperation and blood transfusions Ron was diagnosed with a rare form of bone marrow cancer. The past 6 months have been entirely devoted to Ron's recovery. He's undergone multiple transfusions and several rounds of chemotherapy. Ron's body has responded really well to the treatment and Ron and Judy are encouraged that the cancer cells are decreasing and his body is generating blood on its own again.
Their visit here this week is their first journey out since the diagnosis. You can imagine how good that feels for all of us!
Please continue to pray for Ron and Judy. Pray with us that God removes all the cancer cells, and that Ron's bone marrow continues to produce red blood as it should.
Faulkner Engagement
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| the moment... |
Subscribe in a readerSo here at the ESBS, we try to be as biblical as possible, so just like Jesus, we send 'em out of here two by two.
Chance and Mary Austin got engaged last week. Whoot whoot! What an awesome place to meet your spouse. Sure does beat the bar, or the scrabble club. just sayin'
Congratulations Chance and Mary Austin. We're excited for your life together!
Check out the Student Blog!
Subscribe in a readerEach week we ask our students to blog briefly about what they're seeing in the book we're currently studying. From time to time I get some neat feedback from people who are blessed by what they're reading on the student blog site. Each time that happens I'm reminded that as the program goes along, little by little, our students are turning into people who really have something to say when it comes to a thoughtful reflection on the content of even the most random/under-appreciated books of the Bible.
Check out what they're learning: visit our student blog site soon.