We just completed 5 days of One Storying Training. As tiring as it was, it was a great time of learning! Most of the people in West Africa are oral learners, so we learned how to take the scriptures and tell them in story form. You think no problem, I know these stories, but don't realize how much of the stories you don't remember. We went out in a local neighborhood and shared the stories (with a translator). Through this time we made many new relationships. Please pray for Raymond, he seems to be really seeking. He has agreed to allow Jon come back and tell him more stories. We prayed for an interpretor and met a man the next day that has agreed to do this. This man may know the Lord, if he does then Jon will be training him how to share God's word and if not he will hear the stories also.
The day before our training started we went to get our Ivorian drivers license. Wow, was this a process. We left the office at 7:30 am and returned at 5:30 pm. We spent 9 hours in line! Must I say, outside in the heat! We didn't realize that it would take this long, so we didn't take any sunblock, water, etc. So, I was cooked when we got home.
On Thursday we will be starting back in our French learning and two weeks after that we will be having Church Planting training. After our CP training, we are going to take a few days vacation and go to the beach. We have been very busy and are ready for a break!
We are so ready to be able to have long conversations with the people we meet! Continue to pray for our language learning and the relationships that we have made.
As always, we love to hear from you. Shoot us an email to let us know what is going on in your life.
Blessings,
Teresa
1 comment:
And I thought that the license bureau here was bad. I don’t think I will feel right complaining about standing in line for 30 minutes in the air conditioning again.
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