I love Sierra Leone, and I love being home

I’ve had a pretty long stretch of trainings in South Africa and Sierra Leone. I’m finally home and it feels good.

In Freetown all of the students’ presentations stayed in the biblical text which the students were assigned. There was no wandering. There was no outside influence. They stayed with what the Bible said. It was amazing, and encouraging.

During the second week of training, in Makeni, we taught skills for understanding apocalyptic literature. Revelation! It was an exciting week of learning about symbols and signs and what is happening in the supernatural world. The students were amazed, especially with the final chapters. Christ triumphs over all His foes; there’s a wonderful joining of the church with Christ, and a new heaven and a new earth. As we finished reading the last chapter they clapped.

Two amazing weeks of training. Here are a few pictures.

My grandson. He slept hard and developed some tire tracks on his face. 
The church where our training is located is in a majority Muslim community.
One of our students teaching others on Saturday morning.

We train pastors, church leaders, and women who teach.

Electricity to charge devices is an important commodity. Our classrooms use government power when it’s available and a small generator to power the fans and outlets.

One student brings her very cute baby to class.

Chicago 2022
A song about the end of Revelation chapter 6!
After studying Revelation chapters 2 and 3, we broke into groups and made a list of weaknesses of the churches that the students attend. The issue that seemed to be the source of the difficulties was a lack of qualified leaders. Then we talked about action steps to fix the problems.

And link of the month. It’s a good one.

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/trevin-wax/listening-that-hurts/

Thanks for reading and praying and giving.

Bob and Vickie Burris

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