We are on our way home. This trip home is one of the longest yet -74 hours. I will leave Jane in Nairobi, Kenya before heading across the deep blue. This part of the trip has really been exciting. We trained 25 students in personal Bible study skills and selected a group who will do ongoing Bible study development online through Zoom as we develop a team who can help us move the training forward. I am excited to see these people come to know God through His Word and then be able to communicate what they have discovered to their people. We had four denominations representing six different people groups in this part of the training.
We also had 32 people attend our API evangelism training – mostly young people from four different people groups. This was a tough one for me – teaching evangelism to people whose wellbeing is at risk just by claiming to be Christian is both hard and truly humbling. I certainly had a very overwhelming sense of inadequacy. However, the Word is the Word, and it doesn’t change based on one’s circumstances.
On the last day of the training we were talking about hindrances to the Gospel, and we brainstormed ways of overcoming those hindrances. They then decided to role play and reenact the issues. I stood in the back of the class as they laughed and enjoyed the time. However, what they were depicting made me weep as I watched them portray the threats and risks that loving and serving Jesus brings to their families and lives.
Again, I am deeply humbled. Please continue to pray for all that God is doing here as well as in South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania…. We will be sending you the prayer needs of our team in the field so you can get to know them and join with us in bringing them before the Father.
Thank you all for your love and support of what God is doing through Ancient Promise International. Please pray for our travels home.
Robbie