Teaching
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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…
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Aug 27 – Angela, Joshua OT Oral Test Example, Nehemiah, Malachi A, Malachi B Aug 20 – Derrick, Saana Haggai, Zechariah A, Zechariah B, Zechariah C Aug 13 – Angela, Vicka Ezra A, Esther, Ezra B Aug 10 – Students Chronicles Sermons Thelma, Pete, Maria, Sasha, Yulia, Paul Aug 7 – Ben D Chronicles A, Chronicles B Aug 5 – Sandrine F Obadiah July 30 – Joshua W…
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This is a super interesting article from the Economist blog concerning what kind of happiness brings health. The premise of the experiment was what kind of pleasure brings health, is it basically selfish pleasure or selfless (giving to others) pleasure. Past experiements show that both bring roughly equal happiness to a person. And we know…
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On our most recent road trip we listened to an excellent teaching on being married and raising a family in ministry. The teaching is by Darlene Cunningham, co-founder of YWAM. This teaching was particularly encouraging because it is challenging raising kids, never mind when that is within a small community. Darlene gives some really wise…
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Recently we taught in a Discipleship Training School, a 6 month program that equips young believers to know God and then make him known – because he is a beautiful, wonderful God worthy of everyone’s worship. We were teaching about the Bible because it is God’s story and shows his wonderful plan for our redemption!…
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Just for some fun: A resident of one of the European countries – an atheist – became lost during a trip to Africa. After a while he came upon a tribe of savages. Suddenly, he sees that the leader reads the Bible. Going up to the leader, the European said to him: – Bible reading?…
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It was a wild ride, reading and studying every verse in all 66 books of the Bible. Maybe it seemed challenging at the beginning. And maybe there were days when I just couldn’t do any more. But I walked away with a firm grasp of understanding of the whole Bible! What does the Bible really…
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When was the last time that you took down the binder or journal from a conference, retreat or series of messages and read through them. I almost never do. Who actually has time for that? I certainly don’t. Of course, note-taking does help with the initial remembering and even processing of information, but except for…
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I had a new friend invite me over to his chair the other day. He wanted to ask me a question. “Have you ever hated someone?” It’s not everyday I’m asked that. He explained a little more and I suggested he give this book a read, “The Hiding Place” by Corrie Ten Boom. In it…
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Our Titus Training Program will be starting in just 7 weeks. We have 10 participants from all over Europe (like Sweden, Germany, Lithuania, Switzerland) in three teams heading to nations like Romania, Russia and Ukraine! We’re so excited to see these SBS graduates go out and teach the Bible and how to study it. After…
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We have travelled and taught and studied multiple new languages with such variety as Mandarin Chinese, Indonesian and Russian. Of course, as teachers it is incredibly important to show humility by also being a learner, of culture and language, so that we don’t think we only have something to offer without also realizing that we…
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I’m posting this article from Christianity Today because of its relevance to my post on Father’s Day. There is a really great quote below: Frederick von Hugel said the institution of the church is like the bark on the tree. There’s no life in the bark. It’s dead wood. But it protects the life of…
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One of our teams headed to central Europe, to Hungary for the first month and then on to Latvia. They had some really cool opportunities, from teaching Revelation to entering a post-soviet prison teaching inmates how to read and study their Bible. Listen to Silvi share about some of her experience: When I looked at…
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In Georgia our team had an amazing opportunity to teach at one of the only Kurdish churches in the world! We taught the book of 1 Peter to them, chapter by chapter every Saturday and Sunday Night for a month. One particularly unique moment happened when we were teaching Chapter 3:1-6. These verses emphasize the influence…
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One of the teams that we sent out stayed for one month in Ukraine and then moved on to the mid-west of Russia. Here is a quote from one of the interns, James from Germany: “From the training time on God began to show me that teaching the bible and even teaching in general is…
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In an earlier post, I mentioned we would like to highlight each of the teams that we sent out in October. The team on the left flew to Hong Kong and spent two months teaching there and in their northern neighbour. Their newsletter is the picture on the left – it’s a picture because the…
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It depends how you read it. The title could imply ‘the stuff about God you have missed’ but actually it is a book about rest. Our Pastor from Canada sent it to us and it arrived appropriately the day before we left on vacation. We got in the car early the day after we graduated…
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Well, we are nearly finished with the first 3 weeks of the training program. This is exciting because the theory (classroom) part is over and now we will get out into the real world and teach people. Some of the special characteristics of this particular program: – of 9 participants and 9 staff, we represent…
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We are leading Titus Project training program right now, first time ever in Ukraine, first time ever in Russian, first time ever with 9 staff for 9 participants, first time … there are a lot of firsts here! One of those firsts for us is co-leading a team with someone. So we’re really excited to…
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