Class Update

In the church planting course there are many different things that have been covered over the course of the year. Last semester our students studied a group of Indian people called the Yuroks. They listened to many tapes and learned about the Yurok culture and way of life. The students also studied how one goes about cross-cultural evangelism withing a church planting context. New Tribes Mission has seen the value in teaching people chronologically starting in Genesis. It lays a firm foundation. We are in the last week of the "Church Planting" class. All our students were given a Bible lesson that they were supposed to prepare. They were to write up the Bible lesson following the "Building on Firm Foundations" lesson plans but they were supposed to write them as if they were teaching the Yurok people. The students were supposed to pull in as many examples as they could to make it understandable to the Yurok people. This week the lady and men have split up and each person is presenting their Bible lesson to their group. The ladies have done such a great job. Each lady has their own style of teaching. It has been good to see how they have tried to get their audience involved and made it as interactive as possible. (There have been some really great ideas that I have written down and I will try to incorporate next year as I teach in Awana.) Although this is only a glimpse of what it will be like teaching cross culturally in a tribal setting, it has been a good expereince.