For the last two days, we have been in Pleven teaching leadership at the Bulgarian Theological Seminary extension course. By the time we returned to Sofia, we were completely exhausted having spent two hours on the road and then teaching for eight hours on Friday, teaching another eight hours on Saturday and then two more hours on the road back to Sofia. However, it was a terrific experience and well worth the effort.
As is fairly common in Central Europe, theological educational institutions have had declining enrollments. Their response has been to create extension programs in cities around the country so that people who wish to study can do so while they continue to work. Also, they don't have to move to Sofia and have the expenses of living away from home. The program is working quite well and the BTS has extension programs in several cities outside of Sofia. Pleven is one of them.
This was a group of older students, for the most part. The people were nearly all in their late 30's and up, so they had lots of life experience. Many had lived under communism. So the Biblical principles of leadership that we are teaching really resonate with them. We had terrific discussions and they were very engaged and had excellent insights.
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