Kenya Training Photos and Observations...
Yesterday I promised that I would post some pictures of the training and so here are a few. We had a few new people join this morning who had been traveling from other areas so we are up to 29 trainers now. I must say that this has been by far the best training that I have been a part of to date.
Throughout the course the trainers are taught how to learn and tell Scripture Stories accurately in order to take them to the oral learners whom they work and live with.
They are broken into small groups to practice the various stories. Then each group must
decide on one person to tell the to the larger group as a whole.
During the second day we practice what it will be like for them as individuals to be sent to another
group, church, village, etc. And so when they have decided within the group who there "missionary" is they lay hands on that person and "commision" them to go and "send them to their target village"
(Read other group) to tell the story and lead them in engaging with the Word through asking questions of the story.
Having done a few trainings now in various places and with people from many different backgrounds I honestly say that there has been a big difference between this group and previous groups I have taught. The difference is that this group was hand picked and chosen. It was not through a blanket invitation to a church. It was not a ministry wanting to have all their people trained. It was people who were chosen because of their calling and who were identified as those called to train and teach.
I think there is a spiritual principle to be learned here. Jesus had many followers, many who earnestly and honestly desired to know Him and even serve Him. Yet there were few, 12 to be exact that He chose. In the end it was these few whom the Lord used to build His church. For us today are we living simply as a "follower" or do we know that He has chosen us and called us for a purpose?
Throughout the course the trainers are taught how to learn and tell Scripture Stories accurately in order to take them to the oral learners whom they work and live with.
They are broken into small groups to practice the various stories. Then each group must
decide on one person to tell the to the larger group as a whole.
During the second day we practice what it will be like for them as individuals to be sent to another
group, church, village, etc. And so when they have decided within the group who there "missionary" is they lay hands on that person and "commision" them to go and "send them to their target village"
(Read other group) to tell the story and lead them in engaging with the Word through asking questions of the story.
Having done a few trainings now in various places and with people from many different backgrounds I honestly say that there has been a big difference between this group and previous groups I have taught. The difference is that this group was hand picked and chosen. It was not through a blanket invitation to a church. It was not a ministry wanting to have all their people trained. It was people who were chosen because of their calling and who were identified as those called to train and teach.
I think there is a spiritual principle to be learned here. Jesus had many followers, many who earnestly and honestly desired to know Him and even serve Him. Yet there were few, 12 to be exact that He chose. In the end it was these few whom the Lord used to build His church. For us today are we living simply as a "follower" or do we know that He has chosen us and called us for a purpose?
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