 |
In April, Jenny had the privilege of sharing over 2 days as part of an extended workshop hosted by Payap University Linguistics Institue and SIL International.
The workshop was on the subject of "Scripture Engagement - Translating the Bible Into Action." Through the workshop, organizers wanted to help participants to learn how to apply and use the Bible in more practical and creative ways in order to impact lives more effectively. |
| The 15 delegates were from 5 different people groups: Akha, Shan, Karen, Wa and Lahu. They had permission to travel to Chiang Mai for the 10 week duration of the course.
I became involved when having coffee with a good friend who had the responsibility for 3 days teaching on children and family. As I shared thoughts and lessons learnt through past experience mainly with Powerpack, I was invited to share the teaching of this topic. |
 |
 |
I am not used to speaking or teaching and therefore it stretched me to prepare notes and Powerpoints. I prepared teaching on "The Importance of Children's Ministry" and "A Biblical Basis for Children's Ministry".
I adapted the "Aim Lower, Think Smaller" video to incorporate Burmese text and narration. |
| We particularly wanted to demonstrate how children can be involved in ministry and so we involved the Baan Saan Fan children to lead an interactive worship session.
It was very moving and I believe impacting as the children ministered to the delegates. Apparently they were talking of it for some days afterwards and expressing that God had touched them powerfully through the children in a way that they had not experienced before. |
 |
The feedback was that the delegates plan to encourage churches under their influence to actively involve children more.
