T4T Seminar in Myanmar off to a Great Start

Pastor Mang interprets as I teach T4T in Myanmar. In the top photo, a young
woman answers questions during the teaching of Lesson 1.

A young man stood up and asked, “Are there special or elect people who are to carry out the Great Commission?” The  young Myanmar man’s question is a common one. Or, it’s at least a common question people ask themselves, but he was brave enough to ask. My answer was, the Great Commission is for all followers of Jesus. If you are a believer, a follower of Christ, then you are to carry out, live out, the Great Commission.

His question came as we started the first day of our Training For Trainers (T4T) Seminar here in Myanmar. It was a great first day as we completed Lesson 1 of the six lesson course with 60 people in attendance.. It’s a joy to teach T4T with my beautiful bride. Martha did a great job teaching today as she always does.

The president of Grace Theological College (GTC), Pastor Mang, interpreted for us. Not every English word translates into Burmese, but Pastor Mang did an incredible job translating and keeping the seminar going very smoothly.

Those in attendance were GTC students, former GTC students, and indigenous pastors and missionaries. They were very attentive and took notes and highlighted scripture in their Bibles as is required in T4T. I asked several times if what we were teaching made sense, and they said they understood.what we were teaching. When asked if they think they could start teaching T4T to someone, they said yes. Praise God! That’s the goal of T4T, to teach/train believers to become disciples of Jesus and to teach them how to train others. It’s all about making disciples who make disciples.

The students have some “Hiswork,”instead of. homework, to do tonight.  A very important part of carrying out the Great Commission is being able to tell your testimony, so tonight, they will write out their testimony and we will go over some of them tomorrow. 

Please continue to pray for us and the students. We believe a lot of fruit will come from this seminar like it did in India back in April.

Pastor Mang interprets for Martha as she teaches T4T.

A young man reads scripture during T4T seminar in Myanmar.