Jeff Adams

Whew! I hope I have enough fuel in the tank to finish this week. But what a blast it’s been!

I couldn’t post an update yesterday because the Internet was down in the hotel again. Maybe they just turn it off at 0100hrs. I wouldn’t know because I don’t usually get back until 0130 or so. I had every intention of posting this after I finished teaching my plenary session this morning. I got to the speaker’s “green room,” opened my computer and the lights went out. I was able to come back to the hotel for just this brief time before returning for tonight’s activities and fortunately the Internet is now working.

Tuesday night’s speaker was Guatemalan Junior Zapata, one of the leading youth speakers in Latin America, a man I first met years ago when he was finishing High School and I was the speaker at a youth camp in Guatemala. Our students really loved what he had to say and begged me to ask him to come to The Summit in 2011. I wrote about our reconnecting after many years in this post from April of 2008 if you’d like to know a bit more about Junior.

Last night was Night Without Borders at CIMA 2010. Pastor Yun was the speaker. If you have not read the book about his life called The Heavenly Man, you need to get it. It will stretch you and probably make you uncomfortable, but you won’t be bored. Yun is one of the principle leaders of the house church movement in China. Forced to leave due to harsh persecution, he now lives with his wife and son in Germany. His son Isaac, who speaks German, is often his interpreter. Last night a Chinese pastor who lives in Argentina interpreted into Spanish.

You would all be proud of our group of students from KCBT. They have been stretched to the limit but they have responded splendidly. They have all been serving in areas like cleaning restrooms, trash duty and other menial chores that are not much fun under normal conditions much less in a foreign culture with temperatures in the upper 90’s. Just this morning one of the staff leaders stopped me to comment on how pleased he was with this group and what a delight it is to be around them. We have had some great times.

I’ve told you that you could go to http://www.cima2010.com and click CIMA TV to watch the evening events via live streaming. I just found out yesterday that my morning sessions are also being streamed live! I found this out because a Salvadoran friend who lives in Calcutta, India posted on Face Book that she saw the last part of my teaching yesterday morning. I have one more session tomorrow (Thursday) if you would like to join us at 0730hrs Kansas City time. You can click the British flag to translate the site into English, Browse around and you can even see a few pictures already posted. Most are from three years ago. I’ll post some pictures on Face Book when I get home and there will be videos up on YouTube before long.

God is doing some fabulous things in young lives here. The atmosphere is electric. Thanks for your prayerful support. And, thanks to you who gave to some of these students to help them make this trip. I have no doubt it will be life-changing.