PNG Mission Project Day 2: Time of planning with the staff

This morning we met with our staff.  They are such a great group of people - I love so much working with them!  Here is a picture of Greg, Jasmine, & Eva - 3 of our 5 staff (sorry, I couldn't take my own picture - also, sorry if the picture looks a bit squished).

We had a good, but brief, meeting talking about the training that we're going to do in the village.  It's a small village (here is a link so you can see it from on high: UPNG to Hisiu village).  

It’s going to be quite hard to use the training that we use with university students with people with a below high school education, who don’t know how to “cram” lots of information into their heads like uni students can .  They're primarily oral learners, and who don’t speak English or Tok Pisin (PNG Pidgin) - they speak Motu and Jasmine (our staff) may be the only one in our group that can possibly understand them (unless they speak English).  

They have learned to read and "study" English in primary school (all text books are in English), so at least that's a start.  We plan to give them papers written in English and teach in English, but to have the 4 main points of the Knowing God Personally booklet (a Gospel tract that we use) translated into Motu so that they can memorize them before our sharing/witnessing time.  And we'll go slower - teach a 40 minute session in an hour - to give some time for discussion among themselves to help them all understand what we're teaching.  All the teachers (9 sessions) are PNG staff or students.  We also don’t know where they can witness because we aren’t sure there is a market place.  Anyway, should be interesting!

Elton and Jasmine stayed and joined me for lunch.  Then Elton stayed behind and we had a great time together.  I asked him to come with me tomorrow to the Grand Papua Hotel (to wrestle with our invoice from March).  More on that tomorrow!  And tomorrow we meet with the students!