School of Biblical Studies!

It's been a while since I have updated you all.

Here is what has been happening previously.

One of our mornings on Manitou mountain.

For the past month I have served as staff on the base and helped with maintenance around the campus leading a group of students in various projects such as repairing fences, taking out trash, chopping down trees with machetes, setting stones in walkways, etc.

Driving our beloved old work truck.

Grounds team!

Teaching time during the Missing Link
on the site of our Tabernacle layout.

 I also was able to take part for a second time as a support staff reading with students through the Old Testament in our month long Missing Link course.

This Monday the 20th of October, I and seven other adventurous souls are beginning YWAM's most intensive of all its courses (I don't know if that statement is actually true but if you were to hear YWAMers talk about it you would come to that conclusion), the School of Biblical Studies (SBS).
We will only be doing half of the SBS by only studying the New Testament this time for four months.
We will read through all 27 books about five times, chart each one, and study the book through the Inductive Study Method.
Today was the first day and boy was it fun. We learned about the different study methods and why it is good to have a foundation in the Inductive Study Method, OBSERVING the Text, then INTERPRETING what the author meant to the original audience, and then APPLYING what it to ourselves, the community, the church, and the world.
For our first book we are doing Philemon since it is short.

Some of us got excited and went a little overboard
with trying to get everything. In the longer books
we won't be able to make it this colorful.

We read through it together out loud, then the second time through personally color coded the book looking for Who (Characters), What, Repetitions of words, Commands, Atmosphere, References to to Location or Time, Action, Figures of Speech, in other words all sorts of stuff. That is all in the Observation stage.

I am super excited to discover the riches of God's Word in the upcoming months.
Hopefully I can keep you updated with little blog posts here and there.

Please continue to pray for me as that is one of the greatest things you can do for me during this time
Some prayer points are for
~Good focus on studies.
~Passionate love for the Word of God to develop deep in my heart.
~Strong relationships with fellow students and staff.
~Trust in God to provide all I need.
~Devotion to the dream of God to see His Kingdom Come to stay strong.
~Sanity in the face of, what seems to me, a mountain of homework.