Madolenihmw, Pohnpei
Thursday, January 10, 2013
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Creative Teaching at MDMI
I have jumped
back into my teaching schedule at the Every Home for Christ MDMI
Missions School on the other side of the island on Tuesdays and
Thursdays. I continue to teach on the Holy Spirit from the curriculum I
have been given by their leadership, interjecting my own thoughts and
going with the flow, as I am still baffled that I am teaching on the
Holy Spirit. That's sort of like predicting which way the wind will blow
from day to day. A lot of guesswork involved. This is a subject that is
more "caught" than "taught" in my opinion. Nonetheless, I am doing all I
can to somehow take the Scriptural truths combined with my own personal
experiences and give the students the training they need to go out as
missionaries throughout the island of Pohnpei and beyond.
Today the
lesson seemed long and boring. I wrote out all the notes on the chalk
board for the students to copy into their note books. Then the idea came
to me to have the students break up into five groups and act out the
lesson for the day which was, "The Holy Spirit in the Life of Christ and
in the Church." The students hit the ball out of the park with funny
skits from Scripture portraying the partnership between the Holy Spirit
and Jesus during His earthly ministry. I find that in cross-cultural
settings, stories and skits are far more effective teaching tools than a
bunch of information and facts.
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Christian Young
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