Jonny Abroad's Newsletter

Hello

I have been on my course for about two weeks now. It is really enjoyable but the pace that we have to work at is quickly increasing. The first week we went through the book of Philemon, all 25 verses, and they showed us the systematic method that we are going to be using for the next 9 months. We then went on to Titus (46 verses) and we had about 4 days to finish that, which wasn’t too bad.

I’m doing Ephesians at the moment; the method isn’t quite set into me yet. We have to make a chart for each book giving the basic outline and key points of each division and section and then make another set of charts (one chart per approx 30 verses) giving the basic outline and key points of each sector and paragraph. Apparently we are meant to get these secondary charts down to about 45 minutes per chart. It’s taking me a lot longer at the moment (Ephesians is 6 charts). They are slowly getting done - hopefully I’ll speed up a bit.

There has been a bit of time for other activities such as a trip to Glacier National Park (an amazing place) and generally getting to know people. I think this time will diminish pretty quickly though.

I helped out at a garage sale today, not quite the English garage sale though. There were two huge warehouses filled with people’s donated goods. It was quite impressive how quickly it disappeared. I was in the furniture and large goods area, helping people get their purchases into their trucks. I was there for about 6 hours, in which time my section went from crammed full, to where you could move, to a barren wasteland (almost). Well it was pretty fun talking to random people and I think we raised quite a lot of money for New Orleans relief. There was also a big blood drive for the same cause, but I am banned from giving blood due to mad cow disease!

Prayer Requests: that I have enough discipline not to procrastinate (usually a hobby of mine), that I find some things in common with my Korean room mate (Sun Bok Bae) because we haven’t found much to talk about yet, that I keep healthy (so far so good).

In Christ

Jonny Abroad