Thursday June 16th after lunch half the Filter team got to go to the local school a little ways down the road while the others delivered the filter to the office of the ones who controlled the jail.
They were told that they were going to go to the classes and introduce themselves to the students and invite them to a Bible study in the yard of the school after classes. Which then they were going to go over the Bridge example of the gospel. It talks about our sins keep us separated from God, but with the death and resurrection of his son Jesus. We can be with God in paradise. So Jesus is the Bridge from us to God. How it is set up in the illustration by the end the drawing is in the shape of a cross.
This is what actually happened. Johnny, Adam, Sergio, myself and our two translators Algie and Dariel arrived at the school and were introduced by the one in charge of the filters. Then he left and continued on with the other guys to deliver the filter. Then the principle started talking about us being there for their adopt-a-minster program. She went on to say that we were going to be substitute teachers for the teachers so they could be excused from class for personal needs or needs for the school.
Then they said how we were all being assigned to different rooms. So they were splitting all of us up including the translators. So they began to write teachers names on slips of paper. They chose names and went to their classes not knowing what they were going to do. It was chaos but we went knowing God had our backs as well as each other.
I started with Adam and after he was introduced the teacher just walked off and left him alone. Which is what all the other teachers did to the other members too.
Johnny, being Johnny, just took the bull by the horns and ran with it. He began getting the class to introduce themselves. So I told Adam to do the same.
Then as a joke I told Adam to teach them the Wood Chuck tongue twister. He had nothing else so he ran with it and began teaching.
I went to check on the other two and Johnny was talking about the filters and the gospel illustration that went with it. When I went to check on Sergio he was not in the classroom and neither was the kids. So I went back to check on Adam hoping Sergio was all right where ever he was. He was still going over the twister so I join in the fun there for a while.
I asked Dariel where Sergio was but he keep pointing towards the class he was suppose to be in. Later I figured out there was another area of classrooms towards the room he was previously in. Which was what Dariel was pointing at. So I joined Sergio and he was with the older kids, 16 or 17 yr. olds, and he was just standing there. Figured out later that he had been learning Cebuano and teaching some English, but at the time I walked in he was awkwardly standing there while the students took pictures of him with their phones.
So I swooped in to save the day by suggesting Wood Chuck since it went so well earlier. I stayed with Sergio and helped out until it was Bible Study time, all most two hours after we arrived, by that time we were relieved because we knew what to do from there.
After the quick study we talked to the guy that had introduced us and left earlier about the confusion. He got it cleared up for us. So now the team will go every Thursday and Friday. If a teacher needs to leave we take over and get to share Bible studies with the students but if all the teachers stay the Bible study will be held after class.
So pray that God will use these opportunities to have Bible studies at the school to glorify him. Pray that seed with be sowed and harvests watered. We also are going to try to use this to get in the homes of some students to share the gospel there and set up Bible studies in the homes.
Thank you all for your prayers. Please continue as we go out to share the love of God with these people. God Bless.