First Week of Class

We are on Friday morning and this is the closing of the first week of classes. Two of our Pastors are having some problems with the English. They come from Aura area which is in the back woods of Uganda. Many people will not travel there because it is a long ways away and is not always safe, and many of the people in Aura area do not leave and have association with the outside areas of Uganda. We are having their District Superintendent (Toko) to help translate the tests to them. When they return home they will be training all the other Pastors in their own language. What will be hard is when they have to preach to the class in English. Barb Pope is doing a wonderful job of teaching the Pastors how to keep a calendar and organizing their time, some of us need a few lessons in this as well. Carol is giving to the pastors many resources such as coloring pages that have the Bible Story on the back. She has worned them not to give them to their children at home until they make copies. My class gets into what do you do when you are invited to a funeral and the food has be sacraficed to Gods. You know just like our funeral dinners. HA! They have many issues that seem to come straight from the Bible times. Len has the hardest classes, (He is such a slave driver) because he is going to have the pastors to preach. But at this time he has them to lead a morning and evening devotion which gives him a sense of their styles and comprehension. I hope to place a part of a morning devotion on this blog. Jim is teaching Evangelism this week and then he will teach Methodist Doctrine next week. The Pastors are very excited to be here, even though we are giving them much in the way of homework and reading. The church building is coming along. They have the footers constructed and in place and today they will be pouring the concrete. Tomorrow the workers will be going out again while we teach in the morning a makeup time that has been lost, and then at 1:00 we will be going to a Children's Rally at Wanyange Central UMC. We are doing well with the food even though some of the workers and teachers have ate in local homes. We are having a little problem with sinus because we are staying along the Nile River. We will send you a moment of blessing tomorrow after the Children's Rally. Greetings from the whole team. In Christ Byron Fritz