Hello friends and family! Well we are getting closer to our outreach..we now leave in 2 weeks for NIKO then Panama! The staff leaders (including myself) will be leaving the next Wednesday, September 29th for NIKO training and our students will meet us on Saturday, October 2nd where we will have one day to rest and then start NIKO, our 4 day intensive training in the jungle. After we have completed NIKO, we will head to Puerto Viejo, a beach community on the Caribbean coast to rest for a day or 2 and then head straight to Panama (Bocas Del Torro) to start our outreach with the Indigenous people. We are busy getting prepared for our outreach while finishing our last 2 weeks of classes.
Last week our classes were how to study the Bible. We were very fortunate to have the leader of the Biblical Core Course teach us the whole week. I am always so excited to learn more about the Bible and I definitely enjoyed the classes this week. We were taught the Inductive method on studying the Bible, which purposes to find meaning in the Scripture through oberservation instead of coming to the text with a predetermined meaning. As a class we studied the book of Philemon together just because it is such a short book and it takes a while to study a book of the Bible completely. I learned so many new insights from the book of Philemon which I had never seen before. One thing that I leraned is to put my confidence in Christ and not man. So many times we put our trust in a person, when we need to put our trust in God who is in control in all situations! Another important part of studying the Bible which is so important is knowing the process of application or applying it to my life. There are 2 steps to application of God’s Word: one is agreeing personally with the text in my mind, the second is to actually do what it says! Many times I can do step one and agree with a text that it is important for me to do, but I never get around to doing it in my life. This is one area that I want to recommit myself to after this week’s teaching.
The other thing that God is really been teaching me this week is to be thankful for all things. I realice that time is short and God gives us so many blessings every day: from the people in our lives to the things that He faithfully provides for us everyday. I want to constantly be thankful for the people He has placed in my life here in San Jose as well as my family and friends back home. When we have a thankful heart, it is hard to complain or be upset for very long. The Lord knows every need that we personally have and knows every desire of our hearts too. I want to thank each of you for your friendship. You are each so valued by me and I am personally greatful to the Lord for each of you in my life!
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