Teaching
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Right now we have a Titus Project team in Albania. Sonya (you may remember, she is our Ukrainian teammate that has taken leadership of Titus Project Europe) is in Albania leading one of our teams that I (Angela) helped train in England last month. Her perspective is very interesting! It’s been only ten days here…
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Josh and Saana were great ministry partners and friends who pioneered a new ministry for us here in Kyiv. It was called Aqueduct, where we take Inductive Bible Study and offer it to working professionals and students in the city (twice a week in the evening). This past spring Josh and Saana left Kyiv to…
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Musings? Okay, weird word, but it is early friday morning so I am in a bit of a weird mood :) This past week our YWAM Kyiv Leadership team took 4 full days to meet, pray, and plan for the next year. It was a wonder-full time! One morning we read through Psalms 119 and…
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A story from our team in Central Asia- Upon getting to Karakol, we quickly learned our contacts had big plans for us! Karakol is the fourth largest city in Kyrgyzstan (though it has a population of just over 60,000, so it feels quite small), and it is the largest city on Lake Issyk-Kul, in north east Kyrgyzstan (we’re…
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Traffic congestion in Kyiv. Interestingly, its not that there is so much traffic that people can’t get anywhere, as you can see at the top of the photo. When the light turns yellow as many people as possible drive into the intersection. The thinking is sound, if I get in there, then I will be…
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Nadia is one of my coworkers. She is from the Western part of Ukraine and grew up in the Soviet Union. She remembers standing in line for hours with her sisters to get a bit of candy, (which ran out just as they got to the front of the line). I was privileged to travel…
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SBS (School of Biblical Studies) is a very intense 9-month program that takes students through all 66 books of the Bible, reading the whole Bible at least 5 times. Its not for the faint of heart but with such a challenge comes a depth of understanding of God’s Word. This is one of the most…
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Part of our work is teaching and part of our work is leading a team of Bible teachers. One aspect to leading a team is providing opportunities for their growth. We recently hosted a 5 week seminar course studying New Testament theology. This kind of course is deeper than our School of Biblical Studies (SBS).…
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On of our teacher intern teams was sent to Asia this fall, here is a part of an update from them. Keep in mind that because of the nature of our work we cannot post explicitly the names or places where they minister. Time is flying, more than half of the outreach is already over. Let us…
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Here is an update from one of the teams that we sent out to Paraguay. Imagine you come to a place as a stranger and after a week you leave friends behind. That happened to us in Indepedencia. The contact with the German family happened so randomly. We went into a shop in the Mennonite…
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Going Fishing by Charles R. Swindoll Billy Wilder, the great movie producer, openly admitted: “I have a vast and terrible desire never to bore an audience.” With tacit agreement Jack Parr once declared: “The greatest sin is to be dull.” Those two statements ought to haunt anyone who regularly practices the fine art of communication.…
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We will find in the Bible only as much as we are looking for: Great things and divine things if we look for great and divine things, important and historical things if we look for important and historical things, nothing at all if we do not look for anything at all. -Karl Barth, Theologian
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On of our outreach teams went to work in Greece. Here is a small update from them: We are now already for a week in Greece, Athens, and started teaching the Bible overview to Afghan Refugees. They are amazing. These people are so hungry to hear more about God. Some of them come from their…
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Hospitality comes from two greek words: Philao – φιλό is one of several words for “love” in Greek. Being a more precise language than English, classical Greek has a few different ways to express the word “love.” In this case, the word that is used means “brotherly love” or “to love like a brother”. Xenos –…
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One of our friends recommended this series for teaching kids about sex. There are two sets of 5 books, one for boys and one for girls. The series begins with “Why Boys and Girls are Different” for ages 4-6 and then goes on from there. Click for the first book for boys and for girls.
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Our team in Ukraine will be kicking off an indepth Bible Study Program in the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. This is an incredible program that will grow your mind and your love for Jesus! In case you’re wondering the program will run in Kyiv.
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Some friends have been asking what course I will be taking in Calgary in a few weeks. I’m really going to study under a professor, a man by the name of Tremper Longman III. Why is he so special? He wrote the book on the wisdom literature. I’m really excited to learn from him, even…
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“We can never thank God enough for not only giving us a whole Gospel to believe but a whole world to give it to.” – A.B. Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (Sep 23, 1899; CMA Weekly p260-262)
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This is a great series on the many basic topics relevant to a new or growing Christian. Highly recommended. Of course, as with any book or series some answers or ideas fail to perfectly address all the issues possible. But as a general resource this is an excellent starting point. Click here or on the…
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I’ve finally got a few minutes to get some of the pictures from our Turkey Ancient New Testament Sites Tour up. This first segment covers our travels to Patara, Myra, Smyrna (Izmir), Ephesus and Pergamum. I chose this picture, not because it is the best of the bunch. It’s actually just an ordinary picture, go see some better ones…
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