Christian Classes

We are into our fourth week in the class Christian Ethics with the three students. We meet each Tuesday evening; watch a lecture from Dr. Mark Bird from God's Bible School & College; discuss what they have been reading, and take necessary quizzes. The students are already remarking how much the class is interesting them and how it is helping them.
We are also into our fourth week with the class Practical Christianity at the village church in Kamyanitza. This class is more informal, which the students are attending without any resulting credit. However, it has been extremely encouraging to observe that the students engage as if they are getting credit and pursuing the studies in this class with as much seriousness as we have observed in a long time. Attending the classes are about 12 young people who come regularly and are serious about what they can learn to progress their Christian experience. They will do the work which goes along with this class as if Tim were teaching it in a college setting. Additionally, there have been two to three visitors come to the class each session, who possibly come out of curiosity.
For the class which Tim has at our apartment on Tuesday evenings there is a necessity to have some things which any classroom has. Since we only have our kitchen table, that has had to suffice for a study area for the past several weeks, but Tim it building some student tables so that the students might have a bit more space to work. Since there is no workshop to do this when living in an apartment, you may see in the photo that he works on the balcony (weather permitting, which most of the time it is not. The other day he came in because it was so cold because the balcony in on the northeast side and his hands were red as a fire engine from the wind and cold). The balcony is on the third floor, thus fairly high from the ground and is only about three feet wide--and no railing! Pretty precarious work shop--nor for you acrophobiacs!

Balcony Workshop