JEM PASTOR TRAINING
MAY 1, 2010
As we kicked off Friday, April 30, 2010, at about 7:00PM, our vehicle started well but in the middle of our journey, it started to give some problems. It was not pulling well. However, with God’s help, we made it to Buchanan safely at 11:00PM.
The next day which was the first of May, we took off to the town where we usually have our training. We started our trip at 8:30AM and reached at 10:00AM. We were met upon arrival eleven of our students. This is the first day of training for the second phase after the first phase ended on April 10, 2010.
We started our classes at about 10:15AM and ended at 2:45PM. When we started, we took some time to review the lessons on PREACHING BIBLICAL MESSAGES which were taught during the first phase of the training. We also took time to look at the assignments which were given to the students to work on during the break.
After the review and looking at the assignments, we then went ahead to the lesson of the day. We dealt with FINDING THE MAIN IDEA OF A TEXT. We taught what the Main Idea of the text is and how to find it. In finding the MAIN IDEA of a text, one must consider two things:
1. FINDING THE SUBJECT
2. FINDING THE COMPLETER
The students were given some passages to find the Main Idea of those texts. The high light of the day was the graduation of the Pora-society which took place the very day we were having our training. The Pora-society is the Bush School for the men. This society is very strong in this region. Lots of our student could not come for the training because no one was allowed to leave the town in which the graduation was taken place. Hence, those of our students from that town could not come. Some of our students, however, could not come because they were going to be part of the ceremony. There are still some pastors and church leaders who are members of the Poro-Society and part of the church. Their eyes are still blind. That is why this training is so important for them. We pray that God will use this training to open their eyes.
Kindly pray for this training that God will move hearts to be part of this program by supporting it. As of now, this program is self supported. One trip cost $40.00US for fuel. We make about five trips for each phase of the training. Vehicle maintenance for a month is around $200.00US. Our program will end in October this year. We have completed the first phase and have three more phases to complete. This means we have about 20 trips to make. This will cost around $800.00US for fuel consumption and the maintenance for the balance four months will cost around $600.00US. All these have been shouldered by Mr. Munford from his personal funds since the program started in February.
Many thanks for your prayers.
