Hello again or should I say "Muraho" Today David taught the pastors at Masaaka 1st and 2nd Timothy and Neal taught the book of Philemon. Neal is getting ready to teach one of his most favorite books next week in 1st and 2nd Peter and one of his most challenging books in the book of Revelation. Today Frank met with Eric the national director for the PEACE plan and made arrangements to return in June in teaching pastors part of the purpose driven life book by Rick Warren. David had a lot of fun teaching today and pretending to be a televengelist who preached positive self affirming messages to go along with the 1st Timothy passage where in the end times people will gather around themselves the kind of preaching that their itching ears want to hear. Pastor Theolphile was his translator and he really acted the part well right down to the cadence of the voice of a man from America called Rev. Dollar. The pastors seemed to enjoy this part and clearly accepted the call of God to preach the Word in season and out preaching sound doctrine. The pastors love to fire tough questions at us and so we addressed their questions on what it means to be the husband of one wife. Can a woman be a pastor? what does 1st Timothy mean when it says that women will be saved by child bearing, What does it mean that women are to be silent in church? We enjoyed some great singing and the pastors tried to teach David to sing and to dance at the same time. He seems to have two left feet and is 2 or 3 steps behind everyone else but it adds some humor to the group. Neal and David enjoyed a great lunch with the pastors of rice, beans, fried potatoes, meat with sauce probably beef. And a tonic and sprite. David had some of the fresh cucumbers and tomatoes hopefully he won't pay for it later. David enjoyed playing some volleyball with the pastors after his teaching and before Neal taught on Philemon. Neal did a great job tying together the call for forgiveness and reconciliation from Philemon and the Genocide here in Rwanda. The pastors love to grab our bags and carry them for us saying that it is part of their culture. Pastor Theophile doesn't like it when we sit in the back of the jeep giving the front seat to him but that's what we did this time. It was fun giving him the seat of honor that he keeps insisting belong to us. I am amazed at the hunger these pastors have for learning God's Word. It continues to be a humbling experience to play such an important role of teaching them the Word of God and learning from them new applications of God's Word for our own lives. ITs now 7:45 PM Rwandan time and we are waiting for the cook to cook us some fish on the charcoal fire outside. Thank you so much for praying for us! We feel your prayers everyday in the teaching and in the details of this mission trip. Please pray for Neal as he is very much wanting to go to Florida after he returns to the States to join his wife and family to see his son play baseball for Gordon College. He is trying to find an affordable flight at a suitable time. Tomorrow Frank teaches 2 Thessalonians and David will teach 1st Thessalonians. One of the pastor's prayed for all our family back home and for our churches. They know that you are praying for us too. Bye for now, David
David and Pastor Theophile teaching at Masaka
Pastor Theophile's wife Miriam making us dinner!
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