Classes Finish for 2010

Classes at the Christian Leaders' Training College finished for this academic year. That means that the students are finished. Of course the instructors will keep going for a while with red pens and calculators to come up with final grades.

There was a sense of relief among students today. It was a good day to enjoy a video with the history of missions class. We ate some banana cake and watched EE-Taow! The Next Chapter. Anyone seen it? It shows how some New Tribes missionaries evangelized a New Britain (part of PNG) tribe, and then they trained them to take the gospel to their neighboring tribes. It's one of the few videos I've seen with PNG characters and customs, and I think the students enjoy that.

Here's the missions history class looking relaxed. The guy at top left will graduate and go back to Port Moresby to work with youth (remember that's quite a broad term here) and run an after-school program something like Awana to disciple kids in his settlement.

The second guy top left hopes he will be accepted for a cross-cultural internship in the Solomon Islands, ministering with a male classmate (not in this picture) and his wife, the woman front left. The man at top, second right will intern in Western Province at a feeder school  in Mapodo, the home of the guy second left.

The two men in the top middle and the ones top right and seated right are first-year students. They will return to their homes to earn fees for classes next year.

The man second right will intern with his denomination in Western Province. He is eager to evangelize his area.

The gal second left is graduating. She will return to her home in the Sepik to teach children. Perhaps the Lord will open the way for her to go as a missionary to Indonesia.

We ask the Lord to use these students to build His church in Melanesia and beyond.