Student and teacher

I hope God still surprises you.

He used Vicente to surprise the folks at NTM’s Bible institute in Chihuahua, Mexico.

Vicente, a young man from Mexico’s Guarijio people group, applied to the school. In his village, he had helped missionaries learn his language, and he had come to know Christ.

“When we get this type of application,” wrote Virgil Holt, who until recently ministered at the Bible school, “we wonder … if they would be better off studying with the missionaries in their native language.”

But the school admitted Vicente, and Virgil is glad they did.

“Vicente not only excelled in the curriculum, he did it while translating Galatians to his own language,” Virgil wrote.

And that’s just the beginning of what God is doing.

Missionaries John and Linda Steinbacker, who used to work in a Guarijio village, are now working among Guarijios in Chihuahua. And Vicente is taking a key role in that.

“Vicente was thrilled with the chance to teach someone in his own language,” wrote the Steinbachers, adding that he is a gifted teacher. Recently, Vicente presented lessons on the burial, death and resurrection of Christ, which are the final lessons in the evangelistic Bible lesson series.