we've started teaching!

The first week was one of acclamation and anticipation. The second one is tiring, yet exciting. We started teaching at KIST university this past Tuesday and today we taught at SFB. We've been reading parables of Jesus with them which we discuss. We ask them many open ended questions and listen to their responses. Most of are Christians who attend a church from one of many denominations here in Kigali, so they all have very good thoughts and ideas. We really enjoy hearing what they have to say. Some of the challenges include getting everyone in the group to talk, because just as in every culture, some people are less talkative than others. We've been going through the parables that talk about being lost, they tell us about sins and the value of a lost sinner returning to God. One of my students said that he thought the main point of these parables were to show God's love and kindness because he considers his children so valuable that he would go through a lot of trouble to find them and bring them back.
please keep praying for the students we meet with. Tomorrow we will be back at KIST and teaching the same students we taught on Tuesday. PLease also pray for our encouragement, health and ability to teach English well and talk to these Rwandan people. Pray that God helps us encourage the many Christians we meet and show God to the people who don't know Christ.