Day 2 of the children’s worker’s training retreat is in full swing. The photos were taken at breakfast and are the views from the dining room – beautiful isn’t it? (The last taken just out side the dining room!)
Graham Reed spoke this morning on “What is your treasure?” and challenged us about our vision, and our hopes and dreams. He went through what he called “the Vision Killers” – there were far too many nods as he went through the list!
Kay did her bit in the session on special needs – challenging the carefully held views of what children can and cannot do. She said that “we happily agree that the deaf can hear the voice of God, the Blind can see what God has done, the person in a wheel chair can dance with praise – but do we believe that the child with learning difficulties can think with the mind of Christ? When we get that heart sink feeling as the boy with autism walks in – would it change the way we approach that child if we thought in those terms: This child can think with the mind of Christ? Do we take the child and try to make them fit into the mould we have created for our kids work (A square peg in a round hole) or do we find creative ways to make the children’s work fit the child?”
In half an hour, Steve will be taking a seminar called ‘XL in leadership’. I assume they mean excel and not extra large! If they mean extra large – Steve isn’t the man to do the seminar!!
