Fall... what fall?

After a September full of summer weather, October brought winter on with a vengeance. The last week we have had temps below freezing and a dusting of snow covers the ground. That type of drastic change can make it hard to adjust, but we keep hoping for “Indian Summer” yet this fall. Two weeks ago we had the privilege of attending a seminar on Chronological Bible Teaching, put on by Worldview Resource Group in Lac La Biche, Alberta. For those of you who have seen the movie EE-Taow, story of the Mouk People, our teacher was Mark Zook, who is the missionary who God used in this powerful story. As usual it is hard to sum up in a paragraph what took 5 days of lectures to learn, but I will give it a try. Chronological Bible Teaching is not just teaching through the Bible chronologically, it’s goes deeper than that. It is understanding your audience, and how they view reality, in such a way that you can teach the key stories of the Bible, so that the Truth of Scripture is laid down line upon line, precept upon precept knocking out untruth as you go. Then when the message of who Jesus is and what he did on the cross is presented, it is understood within a framework already built by Biblical Truth, not muddled with old belief systems. This makes a clearer, better understanding of what the gospel message really means to mankind. As we sat in class, I often found myself thinking this is way over my head, it sounds so good in

theory, but the practical working it out, what will that look like. So as we settle back into routine, we pick up with what we know to do next. For us, in our context, we are still just trying to understand our audience. We must do this well, in order to best teach God’s story in an understandable and worldview changing way. Learning another language is a lot of work and yet there is joy in the little steps made along the way. Thank you for praying with us and supporting what God is doing here in Alberta. We face discouragement sometimes multiple times a day, yet God is so faithful and we praise Him for His goodness to our family. Today is Thanksgiving here in Canada, to be honest it still sort of sneaks up on us Americans. But of all the holidays to celebrate twice I guess this is the one. We do have so much to be thankful for and yet to much of the time I get bogged down in the battles of daily living. I continue to ask the Lord to be my strength, and to teach me how to live the way He really intended. There is much work to be done, may each one of us be found faithful!

Thanks again, with love from the Sewell’s-Amanda

PS If you haven’t yet watched the movie EE-Taow..we would highly recommend it, you can find it on-line, or click the link.