What a nerve-wracking few days! 8 months ago we had a language speaking test where I scored level 8/9 leaving only a single level to go. Would 8 months of work be enough to get over the final hurdle? I had finished all of the paperwork required, but had my speaking level also improved?
Just as we finished Sunday lunch we got a knock at the door. On Sundays, we get together for a little church service as a family, we go down to the stream and have a paddle and we come back for a sit-on-the-floor finger food lunch. That’s a settled routine for us, and just as it finished there was a knock at the door. Our friend informed us that someone had been cut and we needed to come and see it.
Having just finished our team’s cultural themes paper, where I pulled all the cultural knowledge I’ve discovered over the last three years. I identified some core themes of the Kovol culture. I have been encouraged to start our scope and sequence plan for evangelistic teaching. While my cultural observations are fresh, the consultants said it would be a good time to start thinking about how specifically it will apply to the Kovol evangelistic Bible teaching.
One of the recommendations I received for the last few weeks before my speaking test is to work on a Bible knowledge quiz. The Wantakia team, a team elsewhere in Papua New Guinea provided me with a list of around 60 questions that they asked their people as they studied their culture and began thinking about how to teach evangelistic Bible lessons.