From 'tippy' to steady
Yembiyembi believers call themselves "crossers," meaning they have crossed from Satan’s side to God’s.
But the new "crossers" in a village in Papua New Guinea are having a hard time getting a good grasp on the foundations of the Bible.
This often happens when they are not present at the initial teaching, or didn’t understand it in its entirety.
"So the older believers have started teaching a class right after the main teaching session to anyone that does not have their foundations ’straight,’" missionary Brooks Buser wrote. "This has been a good time to have the older believers get some hands-on teaching experience."
With the hands-on experience, the believers will be able to better prepare for the time when they’ll go into their sister villages and teach God’s Word to those that have yet to hear it in their own language.
The Yembiyembi teachers are also known for being thorough. Last week, they held a 52-question review session.
"The teacher singled out people who were ’tippy’ (tippy like a canoe in water) in their thinking," Brooks wrote. "If the student didn’t get the question right, the teacher assigned a person to teach them right then and there the point that he was missing."
Literacy classes are also helping the believers learn God’s Word.
"We started a follow-up literacy class for five older women who got saved but never learned how to read," Brooks wrote.
Two Inanbimali women, Regina and Prisca, have volunteered to sit and tutor any student who needs help with learning to read.
The two women learned to read last year and now, according to Brooks, are two of the best comprehension readers among the older women.
Please pray that the Inanbimalis continue to have a passion for teaching so that others in their village will desire to know God’s Word in fuller detail and with greater understanding.