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A few weeks ago when we taught the lessons on the creation of the birds and animals, we brought all the books we had that showed the various animals and birds of the world. The idea was to amaze them with the incredible variety that God created. We brainstormed together on all the names of […]

Let me illustrate the usefulness of the chronological pictures by what I overheard one day (Thursday the 10th of March). I normally arrive at the teaching site early to set up. I got there that day and several women were sitting there waiting. I took out some books and the chronological pictures and handed them […]

We have started our own MARKET-ing campaign. Each day we take a picture from the next day’s lesson and we hang it up in the local MARKET. The idea is to get people interested in coming to the teaching sessions to hear more about the picture and what happened in the story. Usually when we […]

Heavy! That is the word needed to describe week 5. The lessons covering the story of Cain and Abel being born outside the garden to Noah and the flood were taught this week and are intense lessons. We were trying to develop the idea that we are all born outside of the Garden, separated from […]

After the last two lessons on Wednesday and Thursday it was apparent that things are starting to click. It is one thing to teach a lesson, it is another thing when the audience wants to engage with the subject matter after the formal lesson is over. These last few days we have been having some […]

They’re here! We have been waiting for our first installment of 20 Megavoice players and their control unit to arrive, and they finally made it. This morning my main translation helper and I put them out in the sun to start getting their first charge (see picture). This feature of being able to charge the […]

One of the odd cultural things for me (Elin) to get used to here in the village where we work is the fact that first names are not significant for the women. In fact, if you were to walk around the village with me asking the women, “What’s her name?”, pointing at me, I doubt […]

Illustrations help us explain a lot of spiritual principles. Just like the Lord used parables in His teaching we try to use a lot of illustrations and proverbs to get our points across. Today we used an illustration of a goat kid to show our identification with Adam’s sin. If a man buys a male […]

There are plenty of aid projects that have come and gone in our area over the years. One project involved teaching people how to graft fruit trees. We have many grafted mango, cashew, and orange trees in our village from that project (and even one or two avocado trees). The idea of grafting provides an […]