Superintendent's Three Month Observations

[First three month of six. Students are low to non-literate Mountain people. Reports below are in the words of a person whose first language is not English.] 
We found the Oral Bible school is much more different to the oral that I did before.
Oral Bible school is more effective than the literacy like more in understanding of the word of God. The students that we have is more highly advanced in what learned compare to the literacy Bible school.

How different?

Literacy Bible school: Is much more in focusing on every word in the context  that we read. We do charting, and lots time doing it and the results are losing treasure in it and the scene or content of the story. We found out that’s the reason why the students growth in spiritual are very slow. Literacy system needs more materials like white board and nice facilities and also some marker, in other words the demand of financial matter are high.

Oral Bible school: More focusing in every scene of the story in finding a lot of treasures that are most important to us. The good things also in Oral style is that our students notify is of their hearts change and their understanding about the word of God is deeper compare to the literacy Bible school that we did last year. The class is not just for educated.

But even the non literates can get rich of this class. Right now I have 2 students are very slow in reading, but because of this style they able to learned and see as the others do also.

The teacher times are good compared to the teacher of the literacy that needs lots of preparations in materials compare to the oral style that only the story in the Bible. Before we use a lot of references from different theologians in order to convinced our students.

The truth of this we have 4-students right now who studied from XXX Bible school where I was teaching before. Reason they studied here in oral way is they are fruits of my previous teaching so they desire to study in our school.

Their testimony about how it different to the Bible school that they study in before is they said "right now the study of the Word not for the people but for us." And they said before they don’t really enjoy to study more the Word of God. But in oral way it become more real and the joy that they have in oral it gives them. They now spent more and more time to study the word of God.

They said the story in the Bible that they studied before they don’t expect that God has talking to them. They said they never see any body in the class of the students will cried because of the treasure in the story. They never see in the class before that the teacher touch by the students during the discussion, but in oral way most of the time.

This type of teaching is for every one, not like before is only for the educated person who can do a lot. They said is much more economy because no pens and notebooks and any paper to record in the class.

The students wanted to finish the 6-months. We do the prayer that God will provide food money for other 3-months more.

The teachers comments:  We are bless doing the oral way because the difference that we did before in literacy was we prepare most for the students. Only us. And sometimes we teach some topics that even we are not really sure only because many people believed so we teach, but biases is there. We teachers we change our hearts and our attitudes by the treasure that we found when we prepare the story. The treasure are so real and powerful.

Not like before. We so busy doing the wordings in the context and yet not seeing the treasure in it. This style will bring us down to humble our selves and only Jesus glorify.

Not us anymore. Praise the Lord!!  E.B.