Discipleship at Harvest Baptist Church
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Topic: Testimonies
Several weeks ago Sunil (the man sitting on the same pew as me) came to Harvest Baptist Church for the first time. Not long after that I got a call from Bro. Ken Guth, a fellow missionary on the island. He asked about Sunil and explained that Sunil had recently recieved Christ at a family camp sponsored by the church Ken is working with. Ken thought it would be a good idea to get Sunil involved in our GROWING Discipleship program. Yesterday, was Sunil's second week and he is progressing well!

The man to the right of the picture is, Juma. You may remember his picture from my newsletter that featured the graduates of the Discipleship Leader's class, a 12 week class that instructed mature believers how to disciple a new convert. Juma and I are alternating teaching the lessons to Sunil. This will give Juma hands on experience in discipling without being overwhelmed. In addition, it will allow me to see how well I taught the concepts of discipling to Juma.

Please pray for Sunil. This week he was sick, but he had such a desire to learn that he came to class anyway. He told Juma and I that everytime he tries to do something for God or better himself in anyway, this kind of stuff happens. Juma and I, explained how our enemy satan doesn't like to see us do things that please God, but we encouraged Sunil to "keep at it", realizing that God will bless his faithfulness!

Updates to Curriculum
Topic: Updates

The GROWING Discipleship website was launched in mid-August of this year. My August 15, 2004 newsletter promoted the material and we recieved some response. At that time leader books and student books were available for download. There was a problem with the cover graphic being centered on those booklets so I've corrected that and reloaded all booklets. At that time I also made changes to the "Relationship with God" lesson, the "Word of God" lesson, and the "Giving Back to God" lesson. The changes were some minor changes that I had been wanting to make to clear up some points on the lessons, also I corrected some typographical errors. At this time I also made the weekly quizzes, transparencies and a couple of additional resources available.

Today, I've added the latest revision which includes changes to the "Word of God" lesson, where I added some information to help the student understand what is meant by inspiration. These changes affected the leader, student, and transparency files. In addition, the "How to Study the Bible" booklet had a portion of text missing from the "Develop it!" section. That has now been corrected.

If you find any errors please bring them to my attention. You can do so by posting a comment to this weblog entry. . .then I can make the necessary corrections.

(Remember some spellings are different on purpose because they use much of the Old English spellings here in Trinidad.)

To download the latest version of the curriculum click below:
Up-to-Date GROWING Discipleship Curriculum Downloads