Ephesians in South Africa

Hello friends. Here’a a quick update:

Monday morning I leave for Queenstown, South Africa where I will be training a group of church leaders in skills for understanding epistles.

I will be using Ephesians to model and teach these skills. I will also lead the students to discover for themselves the glories of God as unfolded by Paul in Ephesians.

My shoulder is much better, I’m ready to travel, and the time spent recuperating was used studying: Ephesians, oral learning cultures, and developing a more focused orality teaching approach to help my students grasp the Scriptures. Some of my reading is pictured below.

I will return to California from South Africa, be home for 5 days, go to Minneapolis for staff meetings, and then depart for 2 weeks in Sierra Leone.

This will be a busy year: 11 training trips in Africa, and 3 week-long staff meetings in Minneapolis. Pray that each training will be fruitful.

And please pray for the students in South Africa, that they would grasp the concepts, and be amazed by the cosmic view of eternity from Ephesians about the work of God in the church, in the world, and in the coming ages, Ephesians 1:9-12, 3:10, 11. If you can, please read/pray/paraphrase/plead the prayers in Ephesians 1:15-23; 3:14-21, for my students.

Thank you for praying and giving and reading,

Bob

Here are some pics from the last few months.

And some of my reading for the last couple of months. The biography of Elisabeth Elliot is excellent.