Update on our training!

CELEBRITIES!!! Our teacher stood up at the end of our first class and announced, "Rich and Karen Brown, who are serving in the Moi tribe of Papua, Indonesia, and Mike and Libby Wild, who are serving in the Wano tribe of Papua, Indonesia, are here with us today! They would love to visit with any of you and are available for talking to you any time while they are here. This is a great time to get some of your questions answered." BJ and I both looked at each other...MOI TRIBE?! This is the tribe that we hear about in the Awayo video! He is like...a celebrity! It's funny, to us, they are legends who have gone overseas and have experienced the Lord working among people and becoming Christians! I wanted to take a picture of him, but BJ wouldn't let me! They will be doing a Q&A for Indonesia tomorrow night. We have been looking forward to this, because we know New Tribes works in Indonesia, but have not heard a lot about it.
Click here to watch the Awayo video! You won't regret it!!

We also wanted to update you on what classes we are currently taking. We just started a new one today called Child Protection. We have heard that this is a very difficult class because of how it opens your eyes to problems in the world, dealing with child abuse and neglect. We just started reading a book called "Too Small to Ignore" by Dr Wess Stafford. I have only read the 1st chapter, but it is talking about giving our children our desrving time, attention, and serious commitment--not someday, but now. Please pray for us during this class. Just from reading the manual last night, we are going to be talking about physical abuse, emotional abuse, and sexual abuse...and these are things that just get under your skin, making you so mad.

The second class that we are in is called Foundational Bible Teaching. As many of you know, New Tribes has adopted a teaching method called the chronological teaching method. This is where you teach, starting in Genesis with creation and teach all the way to Christ's death and resurrection. They feel it is important to start at the beginning and then build foundationally...this way, you know why there had to be a redeemer and why it had to be Jesus! It's actually quite cool! So in our class, we are learning how to actually teach the lessons. Our group will be teaching the story of Noah and the Tower of Babel to our class on Friday...please pray!

Our last class of the day is Love and Respect. Many of you might have heard of the book. We are watching the video series taught by Emerson. It's really funny and useful. He teaches that women need to be loved, and men need to be respected. When the woman is not feeling loved, she reacts and doesn't respect the man, then he reacts and does love the woman...it starts this crazy cycle. It's fun to listen to all of his stories and examples!

We are loving it here and feel honored to be here learning all of this! Thank you so much for all of you who pray for us and give financially. Without all of you, we would not be able to be training here! Sorry there are no pictures this time...but don't forget to watch the Awayo video!!

Blog Worthy!

We gave in...We had a family date night and went to McDonald's! We were so excited to get up to the line and order her her very first happy meal! I'm sure it was funny for the workers because we had no idea what to order for ourselves! We haven't been to McDonald's in forever and it was like we were experiencing it for the first time! haha! We even had to ask what was on a BigMac!

Anyways, Olivia ate so well. She sat in her high chair and really didn't make a peep! She ate all minus 1 chicken nugget (Sophie ate the other!), then the french fries (not all of them), and then was sooooo excited when she got to open the box and find a pink dachshund toy! She was so excited to take home her new toy and WOULD NOT part with the box! Such a fun time!