Monday, June 25, 2007

Another Winner from Washington

Janet Walker, director for CEF Lower Columbia chapter in Washington, sent us an interesting testimony--about another IOT! One of the graduates of Janet's IOT Level 2 course was Ed Cavallo. Ed is the director of CEF Yakima Valley in Washington. Ed is also an IOT for Level 1. He was excited about the training he received for Level 2. Ed's writes the following testimony:

"WOW! I am amazed at how useful this class is to help me plan ways to encourage the saved child to walk "...worthy of the high calling in Christ." The instructors modeled what they taught and held us all to high standards. I highly recommend these instructors and this class to anyone interested in improving their effectiveness to the saved child." (The picture is of a buzz group in the IOT Level 2 course. That's Ed in the red vest on the left!)

We appreciate Ed's enthusiastic response to this course. We also appreciate his encouragement of his fellow IOTs. Sometimes after we've been teaching TCE courses for a while, it's easy to become quite impressed with our own teaching! But we all can learn much from each other. We know Ed will model for his own teachers what has been modeled for him. That's what it's all about--passing along the vision and skills God has given us and building them into the lives of others.

Thanks to both Ed and Janet for this encouraging testimony! And thanks to all of you who shared your words and pictures with us. We enjoyed reading them and hope you are enjoying those colorful soccer balls!

Maybe you're wishing you had sent in a testimony, too. Even though the contest is over, we would still be glad to get your testimony and post it here in the Cafe. Just send it, with a picture if possible, to Cheryl.Oetting@cefonline.com. Cheryl will keep them on file and we will post them from time to time on the blog. There will also be more contests to come, so stay tuned!

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