This book is one of the exciting highlights of our year so far – the completion of our first book of bible lessons for children from Creation to the Ascension! The title is called “The Way of Salvation (written) for Children”.
It is the culmination of over two years of work by a team of 7-8 people, and is composed of 55 bible lessons, including memory verses, a song that goes with each lesson and coloured pictures and illustrations!
We are so thankful for God’s amazing provision of this for the thousands of children here! It may not seem so big when compared to the huge selection of Children’s Bibles and Bible story books we can buy in English, but this book is SPECIAL because it is the very first book of its kind available in the Tala-Andig language and it is now being used to teach children in 7 local schools and is also available to parents to use in their homes.
Also exciting is that this book is the first that we have totally produced and printed right here in Lapoc in our own office!! (Usually we get the printing done out in the town but we invented a way to make a durable cover in here using cardboard with a picture attached to the front and laminated on both sides!)
Four young women worked together to write this book – ranging in age from 26-32 years old. Out of the four, only one of them finished high school and another didn’t even get to finish primary level education. Yet God enabled all four of them to learn how to use computers, and to learn how to do word processing, writing, editing, and formatting in their own language in order to produce this book of very high quality children’s bible lessons. The rest of the team involved were helping in the area of developing illustrations and pictures, final editing and production.
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| And here they are - this is the team of women who worked many diligent hours each week researching, studying and then writing these bible lessons and producing this book. They have been concurrently working on the next children’s bible lesson book which is called “Strengthening Your Faith for Children – Part 1” (which covers the characters in the Bible from Genesis – Ruth) and “Strengthening Your Faith for Children – Part 2” (which covers the characters in the Bible from 1 Samuel – 2 Kings) and Part 1 is well on the way to being completed. The fourth Children’s bible lesson book they are planning to write is an overview of the rest of the OT introducing children to the Psalms, to Proverbs and to each of the Prophets. Our role in this is the privilege of working shoulder to shoulder with these dear co-workers, helping them in the planning and studying stages, being their editors and also making sure their computers and equipment are all functioning well. These ladies each have a vital part in the team who labours in the Gospel here and we are so very thankful to the Lord for them – please PRAY for them and for the many others who are part of the team. |
