This week I have been attending full day classes with Equip Intl.
learning the basics of mission work. The class was taught from 8:00am - 5:00pm.
Each hour was a different lesson. It is very difficult to put a class
like this into words. Topics were always open for discussion and the multiple
solutions for problems were what we as a group of 10 evangelists could think of.
Every answer was written on a board, no matter how well thought. The class was
arrayed in a circle with no tables or podiums. Our leaders, Harold Bracken II
and his wife Brenda, sat in different seating arrangements every day to keep us
from a feeling of their authority. The whole process Harold and Brenda were
modeling is a teaching strategy to use in other cultures. We learned as much or
more from each of the missionaries' experiences as we did from the curriculum.
This made the assimilation of mass quantities of knowledge easy. I took several
pages of notes that earned a special place in my black journal. I used pictures
I drew alongside the notes for further retention; scrolls were for verses of
valuable scripture that I needed to memorize. Spider webs were networks I can
use and such like that. I learned how easy it is to hurt when you want to help.
When we sent shoes to Haiti, we put the local cobbler out of business and the
same with food and clothing handouts. I learned that you need to assimilate
with the culture and learn the language (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11bxy9bSYG4 ß a funny demonstration of why). It would
take two weeks to post all the knowledge and experiences I had in one week of CHE.
Definitely the best education I have ever received! The classes at Equip are so
on key with what is practical in the field. We need a delicate balance of
meeting peoples' physical needs: water, medicine, food, and sanitation and
their spiritual needs: evangelism, follow up, and discipleship. Equips' main
focus is to meet God where he is working. Their main goal is Christ’s Kingdom.
Thank you, Lord, for sending me to this place! In a few weeks I plan to pick up
a missionary trade to take to the field. I am hoping for Pumping water tech taught
by Keith Larrimore, and if I have the funds at that time, a well drilling class
will be added. But in all this I must remember "A man may plan his ways,
but the Lord prepares his steps". I need to spend time in prayer to see if
this is the direction of the Lord our God.http://chenetwork.org/index.php
Prov 16:9 In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord
determines his steps. – NIV
In Christ,
David Greene
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