PNG Easter - Day 5 (of 11) - Good Friday

7 am always comes too early.  But today it was worth it.  We had 40 students (30 first year students) come to the training. We were praying for 65, but more could come today.  The 10 non-first-year students are all very sharp and eager to learn.

It was a very full day with 5 training sessions (~40 minutes each) and 90 minutes for lunch (we walk down the hill to the public beach and a caterer comes with our food).  We had a devotional talk in the morning and I gave an introduction to the training. We started more than an hour late and tried to recover, but ended 90 minutes late - but I'm not sure it was as big of a deal for others as it was for me :-).

The 6 students who taught a session did very well, I was very proud of them!  And overall the students seem to be eager to learn.


We have 2 more days.  Tomorrow has only 2 training sessions, but then we go down to the beach for about 2 hours and talk to everyone we can about Christ.  For many students, this will be the first time they have ever done this!  I'll tell you tomorrow how it went!

Thanks for praying!  Please keep at it :-)

Here are some photos (taken with my old phone of lesser quality).

Beginning worship time

Intermediate (level 2), Lillian teaching

First-year class (Basic), Elton teaching

Practicing sharing the Knowing God Personally booklet

Riding the "bus" back to UPNG