Last week was a big one at our house. Two pastors traveled five hours by minibus taxi to stay with us all week and train the six chosen TEE monitors. Each of these six will begin teaching their own classes soon, in teams of two, and needed to be trained in how to run a TEE class. These classes are discussion-based, not lecture-based, which is a completely different model than what each of these men grew up with. Training them to work in this different format is challenging, but they seem to really enjoy the new ideas and format.
Pastor Campos and Pastor Mala are the two men who traveled from Mocuba to do the trainings, and each of them has a great deal of experience in teaching TEE and running a program. The TEE program in Mocuba is about 10 years old and has over 1,200 students! So, they had a lot of share and put together a great program for our guys, which lasted from 8-5 daily from Monday to Wednesday. They had actually planned to teach until Friday, but found the men already trained in some areas, and told Kevin that he had “cleaned the field” well. These two pastors stayed in our guest room and were so pleasant to have as guests. One day, I decided to feed all of the men pancakes for lunch, and they loved them! It was fun to share our differing cultures and there was a lot of discussion and laughter on many topics. We commented on how difficult their tribal language of Macua is, and they responded that English is much harder!
For Kevin, the week was a realization of a dream come true. See his blog for more on that. It was exciting for our whole family to see the start of the real work, which will be done by Mozambicans, for Mozambicans. We hope to see more and more people come to know and understand God better through these six men, and can’t wait to see what God will do with them, and with others who will be trained, in the years to come. - C
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