Council of Elrond

In the APC, there's 15 of us from Nigeria, Norway, USA, Brazil (working in Rawanda), Columbia, New Zealand, Germany, and Switzerland. Our school staff are from Britain, Switzerland, and South Africa. Ages range from 20-50+, and between us we speak around 20 languages.

So what brings us here? At the very beginning of the school I was struck with similarites between where we're at and the Council of Elrond in The Fellowship of the Ring. True we're not hobbits, elves, or dwarves, but there's something about our coming together in an uncommon place with a common purpose that smells eerily epic.

Without making it too complicated, I think you could say that we're "just" trying to figure out how to follow God in this world. There's something eternal that's been planted in our hearts. Now we're asking what piece do we play in this story? We've each experienced enough disenchantment and falling on our faces to know it's not as easy as all that, but we haven't given up on finding answers either.

If you'd like to meet this strange company, you can in the pictures below
(we're a bit of a motley crew, I'm afraid).

(Left to right) Øyvind (Norway), Ragnhild (Norway), Hannah (New York, US), Christian (staff from England/Norway), Eva (Germany), April (Nebraska/Philippines), Melissa (Arizona, US), and me. Students MIA are Whitney (Tennessee, US), Gabriel (Nigeria), Barbara (Switzerland), Helen (New Zealand), Eli (Nigeria), Paulo (Columbia), Patience (Nigeria), and Umar (Nigeria).

Christian is catching a brilliant idea

Umar is fine tuning his combat skills

Ragnhild, Christian, and Ian (also staff) on a counter-strike

And this is me finding my inner zen on a Friday afternoon