{"id":3047,"date":"2019-11-13T09:11:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T23:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2019-11-13T09:14:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T23:14:31","slug":"lesson-evaluation-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/2019\/11\/13\/lesson-evaluation-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson Evaluation Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thank you so much for praying for our team during our recent Bible lesson evaluation.  Here\u2019s a little update about how that time went and how the Lord answered prayer.  And we\u2019ll include some new prayer requests at the end too.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  Our\nconsultants Aaron and Brandon (both on their first-time visit to Amdu) arrived\nsafely, and we got right to work.  We are blessed here in PNG to have many\nmissionaries who spend part of their time serving as consultants to those of us\ncoming behind them\u2013 using the experiences and wisdom the Lord has given them in\ntheir respective tribal locations to continue to help the next generation of\ntribal church planters.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  Without\ngoing into too much detail, the practice teaching sessions held over two\nafternoons went very well.  Many people in our village were away in\nanother village for a soccer tournament, but the Lord still brought a good\ngroup of people to sit and listen as Bart and Benjamin taught.  It was\nvery good to see what parts of the lessons were clear and what parts weren\u2019t\ncoming across like we thought they would.  Our consultants were able to\nobserve the listeners\u2019 reactions and ask questions in the trade language to\ngauge understanding.  The days were long and full (it\u2019s tiring to teach in\nanother language), but we learned many valuable things as a result of this\nconsultant visit.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lesson check taking place in our office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

  One of the main things our consultants shared was that our lessons need to be much more concise and clear.  That means that we are going back to the drawing board to rework the Bible lessons that were already \u2018done\u2019 and we have been revising the plans for all the rest of the lessons that have yet to be written.  That also means that we will not be ready to begin the chronological Bible teaching before the end of this year like we had hoped!  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  However,\nwe know that the advice our consultants gave us will make the lessons much\nbetter, and we trust their experience and judgment.  So while we once\nagain have to shift \u2018our\u2019 timeline, we have another opportunity to trust the\nLord and rest in His timing.  We continue to work hard towards the day\nwhen the Amdu people will clearly hear God\u2019s message in their own language \u2013\nsomething that has never happened before.  Our goal now is to begin\nteaching sometime in the first half of next year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  Many\ntimes we get our blinders on and think we see something clearly.  It is\nonly when someone else looks at the situation from an outside perspective that\nwe are then able to see areas where we need to make a course correction. \nWe are thankful that the Lord answered our prayers and gave our consultants\nwisdom to know how to help us in this monumental task of making His message\nclear in the Amdu language.  Thank you for praying along with us.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  It\u2019s been almost 6 months since we came back to Amdu after our regional conference and translation workshop.  We are feeling weary.  And Bart is still recovering from some type of virus that hit him after our consultants left.  In just under two weeks, we will be heading to \u2018town\u2019.  This \u2018break\u2019 has several purposes:  some rest and refreshment from the isolation and workload, allowing Luke to take the PSAT at the MK school, and allowing our older boys to participate in an annual spiritual emphasis retreat for the high school aged missionary kids.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  As you\npray for us, you can praise the Lord for the clear results from our lesson\nevaluation.  Please also pray that we would continue to work hard these\nnext two weeks before our break, and pray that this break would be refreshing\nand encouraging.  In the past, whenever we have taken some time out of the\ntribe, we are then able to come back in with a fresh perspective to continue\nthe work the Lord has given us to do here.  \n\n  Thank\nyou for caring about us and for your prayers for the Amdu people.  In Acts\n13:47, Paul says that the Lord made him \u201ca light to the Gentiles, to bring\nsalvation to the farthest corners of the earth.\u201d  There are lots of far\ncorners of this earth that still don\u2019t know about the Lord\u2019s salvation, and the\nAmdu people are in one of them.  But soon, we pray that we will be able to\nsay that salvation has come to this far corner of the earth!  Please\ncontinue to pray that with us. \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you so much for praying for our team during our recent Bible lesson evaluation.  Here\u2019s a little update about how that time went and how the Lord answered prayer.  And we\u2019ll include some new prayer requests at the end too.    Our consultants Aaron and Brandon (both on their first-time visit to Amdu) arrived safely, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,158,58],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"category-ministry","8":"category-praises","9":"category-prayer-requests","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}