Pray for Missions

This month has been a month of transition at our school. We added fourteen new missionary families, added a new principal and assistant principal, and lost our Spanish teacher all in the same month. In addition Moosesend has begun charging for their service, so I will begin sending this newsletter by email without the help of their editing software. Constant change seems here to stay, and it has been stressful for the entire school community. I am posting this without Lynn's help editing so bear with me. Sojourn and The Spanish Language Institute News It was very exciting to welcome fourteen new families to our language school this month. When they first arrived the entire cohort was exposed to COVID. Can you imagine coming to a foreign country and immediately being placed into quarantine for ten days. Our school Sojourn Academy was able to drop off care packages for them. Here are some pictures.  The Admin. team in my car Giving the new arrivals care packages We were able to ...

This past trimester of the school year I  taught on the book of Acts and the missionary journeys of Paul for my 8th and 9th grade classes. As I combed through the passages with the help of my Bob Jones study guide, I discovered some new kinds of missionaries that I had not seen in scripture before. An obscure passage in II Timothy peaked my interest. The passage is II Timothy 4:12: " Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.” Paul wrote about Tychicus in the context of his own persecution by Alexander the Coppersmith. It seems that Tychicus was from Ephesus. Ephesus was arguably Paul’s most difficult church plant. The city was filled with people engaging in occult practices, and many people were being manipulated by the Devil. Paul placed Timothy, his most trusted disciple, who was like a son to him, over Ephesus. There is much more to say about the city of Ephesus, so I think in the future I will write an entire post on it.  Doing some research, some have guessed that Tychicus was a w...