This winter quarter begun after a nice Christmas season. Our main focus is to train people in how to study the Bible for themselves and also to train them to teach others how to do that. At the end of December our Bible school graduated a new batch of students. It was exciting to see each one of them realize what an accomplishment it has been to study every verse in scripture, reading it from the context of the original reader and then applying it to their own lives. The goal is really to see life change in the students and it was so wonderful to see them loving each other, serving one another, and excited to head into the next chapter of their lives, whatever that may look like.
We also said good bye to two of our teammates. One of them was a young Brazilian who had served for two years with our Bible program, the other was a long-term Indian teammate who served with us for five years. It was difficult to say good bye to both of them, but that is the nature of the life we lead.
In January we ran Titus Project again and trained up 11 new Bible teachers. Currently they are all in different countries teaching others how to study the Bible (Armenia, Kazakhstan, France, Switzerland, India and we are leading the team here in Kyiv, Ukraine). We are also running our evening Bible school for professionals. For 8 weeks we have a class every Monday and Thursday evening and we are studying the Pentateuch. Of course there is the regular weekly duties of accounting for Ben, Personnel for Angela, and the leadership team. Ministry continues to be full and rewarding.
