June update

Dear friends,

We send you greetings in the Name of our Saviour.

Thanks for praying about my dissertation. I have done some more work on the main chapters and sent them to the advisor by email. Pray I get feedback on those soon since I would like to submit the final version this month. While I have been working on that, Debbie has been tackling the stack of assignments and exams she needs to mark. My column of papers to mark has had to wait but I hope to reduce it a bit this month.

Debbie and I are travelling to Kaduna city on Saturday. I will be speaking at a church there twice on Sunday 7th and would value your prayers for these opportunities for ministry.

The Summer Programme coordinator has asked us to teach in the second module this year. We will be teaching one course each: Prophetic books for Debbie and Hermeneutics for me. The modules are intense since we will teach the same course content in three weeks as we would normally teach over fifteen weeks in a regular semester. That will keep us busy from 22nd June to 10th July and for some time after that marking the written assignments and exams.

Thank you for praying about the seminars in May. Quite a number of lecturers from the seminary at Jos came and some Bible teachers from local theological colleges were also present. A paper on the 'hidden curriculum' was especially interesting. As teachers we communicate more than the course content by our approach, attitudes and so on. It is a reminder that as Christians it is not only what we say but also how we say it and what we do that communicates our beliefs to other people. Pray that Christ will be communicated in this way also (Philemon 6).

In Christ,

David and Debbie

June update

Dear friends,

We send you greeting in the Name of our Saviour.

Thanks for praying about my dissertation. I have done some more work on the main chapters and sent them to the advisor by email. Pray I get feedback on those soon since I would like to submit the final version this month. While I have been working on that, Debbie has been tackling the stack of assignments and exams she needs to mark. My column of papers to mark has had to wait but I hope to reduce it a bit this month.

Debbie and I are travelling to Kaduna city on Saturday. I will be speaking at a church there twice on Sunday 7th and would value your prayers for this opportunity for ministry.

The Summer Programme coordinator has asked us to teach in the second module this year. We will be teaching one course each: Prophetic books for Debbie and Hermeneutics for me. The modules are intense since we will teach the same course content in three weeks as we would normally teach over fifteen weeks in a regular semester. That will keep us busy from 22nd June to 10th July and for some time after that marking the written assignments and exams.

Thank you for praying about the seminars in May. Quite a number of lecturers from the seminary at Jos came and some Bible teachers from local theological colleges were also present. A paper on the 'hidden curriculum' was especially interesting. As teachers we communicate more than the course content by our approach, attitudes and so on. It is a reminder that as Christians it is not only what we say but also how we say it and what we do that communicates our beliefs to other people. Pray that Christ will be communicated in this way also (Philemon 6).

In Christ,

David and Debbie