Ethiopia
In the car for 7 hours yesterday visiting the 5 teachers and 60 students in Ambo. Great bunch of guys and good students.
Ethiopia pics
Monomanics?
I’m in my hotel room in Ethiopia. Awakened at 3am by the calls to pray played in the city – for all to hear! To pray at 3am, 5am. If you haven’t experienced this, it is common in the countries I visit – loudspeakers blaring – 5 times a day. Pray. Muslim prayers. They are fanatics for a lie. They don’t know, or say they don’t know, but it’s a damnable heresy. They are wrong. The Jesus of the Bible is God, He did die and rise for sins. It really happened. Yes, the Bible is true. But the players of this call to prayer, now going on for 2 3/4 hours… reject Jesus’ person and work. Most of my Uber drivers, as I travel, are committed to this false religion, Muslims. Fanatics. Maniacs. Monomaniacs for a lie.
This article in CT caught my eye as I listened to their pre-recorded calls to prayer and studied to preach two times today to some other fanatics, Jonah 1, and 2 Corinthians 5. Maniacs for Jesus. 25 of them sat in my class yesterday. We talked about Jesus and the Bible – all day. We never tired. Nothing about this Jesus is boring. Today, they will spend all day in church: eating together, partaking of the Lord’s Supper, singing, praying, listening, encouraging each other – rejoicing in the truth, the truth about Jesus. I can’t wait! It’s a little bit of heaven here. They are monomaniacs for Jesus.
Ethiopia in May, Colorado in June, 2019
My next trip will be to the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, a city of almost 3 million. This will be a little longer than most, two full Saturdays of teaching and then every evening for 3 hours. I will also be traveling to Ambo, to visit a TLI training site 2 hours west of Addis.
I will be taking this trip by myself to assess the viability of starting a new school for TLI in the capital city of Addis Ababa. I will also be teaching 30 hours of biblical theology, and giving a one day lecture on God’s independence, better known as aseity.
When I return, I will attend a training seminar about teaching in cultures that are primarily oral in their learning styles. I’m sure to learn some good strategies for teaching those who are not primarily book worms.
Four days later Vickie and I will travel by car to TLI’s annual conference at the Navigators retreat in Glen Eyrie, Colorado, June 9-12. We are looking forward to Vickie meeting the families of those with whom I work!
Then I will attend a four-day field security training program in Colorado Springs. This is a requirement for working with TLI and a necessary safeguard in developing countries.
Please pray for me and especially for the students. Pray that they will finish the course on Biblical Theology and be better equipped to teach and love the Lord and His church.
For the love of God we go!
Bob and Vickie Burris
Training Pastors Worldwide 