Teaching update

Just to keep everyone up to speed with where we are at in the teaching program.  We are now benefiting from the move closer to the village with easier access to the people that have expressed interest in knowing and understanding God’s Word.  I have been meeting with Janji and his wives and younger children regularly.  I also have resumed another small group of men that I was teaching last year(Wiye, Musaa, and Simiti.  We've also had a newcomer to the group, Bamba) .  

You may wonder why these two groups don’t meet together.  The answer is fairly simple, they don’t get along and wouldn’t meet together.   I say this not to speak bad of them in any way, it is just a reality here.  Everyone here knows this.  When the small group and I were talking about setting up a regular meeting on of the guys asked me, “we’re not going to have to meet with Janji are we?” 

I share this with you so that you will pray for our little groups, that they may one day come together to reflect the common element that they share.

Eph. 4:11-16

¹¹ And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, ¹² to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, ¹³ until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, ¹⁴ so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. ¹⁵ Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, ¹⁶ from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Pray that they would grow in maturity, be equipped themselves for the work of the ministry, and be able to speak the truth to one another in love. 

There is another reason they don’t meet together…  They are at different places spiritually.  With Janji’s family we are in evangelistic lessons.  With the small group of guys we are reviewing the basics of the gospel and looking at some of the Old Testament stories they already know and showing how Christ was the fulfillment of God’s promises since the beginning.  These are both fun groups to teach and the material is awesome.  So I don’t mind the extra lessons.

 

I am also teaching Mamadu, our faithful employee.  Sometime I'll do a bio on Mamadu. 

There is another man who has expressed interest, Demba.  But we haven't started yet as he was "not available".   (We'll see what that means in time.)  Pray for him.