Yesterday I spoke at the Ratanakiri KEC (Khmer Evangelical Church) Ladies Christmas Event. There were about 100 ladies there from about 10 different Jarai churches. Originally they asked me to teach in Khmer, but once I realized most of the ladies would be Jarai, I requested that I could teach in Jarai. (These days almost all my teaching is done in Jarai, and I do very little in Khmer…so I’ve lost a lot of my Khmer teaching language.) The event went from 8:45am-4:15pm, and my teaching was an hour. I taught on the Gospel, using Christmas and Genesis 3:15. So many of these ladies have been believers for a long time but have very little understanding of what the Gospel is. The first thing I did was pass out a sheet we created with 10 sentences that summed up the Gospel. Once we’d practiced reading these, I used them throughout the lesson and had the ladies read different the sentences every time they came up in my lesson. This kept everyone on their toes! My lesson also included props, having the ladies learn two songs, and my singing some of my Bible verse songs.

Josh and I created a book of catechism questions for the ladies to learn doctrine and for teaching their children. At the end of my teaching time I demonstrated with Becca how you would teach a child the questions and answers.