I remember reading as a kid the book ‘Narnia’ and all about the little boy who falls in love with Turkish Delight. Well, now I know why! After eating just one small square you definitely don’t want to stop! I may have over indulged a few too many times.
We had a great summer in Turkey. For those who don’t know, Ben has been leading a 9 month bible school that YWAM runs in many locations all over the world. It is called the ‘School of Biblical Studies.’ Basically what we do is take students through the whole bible studying each one of the 66 books using the inductive method (which is really just good reading habits like considering the authors intent and how the original readers would have understood what was written). The challenge is that because this school is 9 months long we have to figure out a way for our students to stay with us for 9 months. An easy solution was to be in Ukraine for 90 days, 90 more days in Turkey and then back to Ukraine for the final 90 days. That way we can just have our students receive the regular visas and not need to apply for temporary residency. Why Turkey? Because Turkey has some great archeological sites that date back to the time in the New Testament.
And so our website right now is filled with pictures from this summer in Turkey. It was awesome taking our students through the Old Testament. They just finished Malachi last week and this week begin studying the New Testament with Luke and Acts while they travel to these different archeological sites. We’ve both taught a lot of books this summer and enjoyed the routine of Ben usually going to work in the morning (sometimes I, Angela would go if I was teaching) and then at the end of the day Ben would come home, we’d have dinner and then head to the park with the kids (since it was the only time of day that wasn’t too hot – just 30C or so).
It has been an awesome Turkish summer and we are going to miss the Turkish Delight. But now we are in the Netherlands getting ready to run the 4th Titus Project Europe! 8 participants and 3 outreach locations! It is going to be awesome!
Teaching Adventures 