DAY 2: GOOD MORNING TEACHERS!

Today we started our day led by Danika following our Titus Project journal meditations. Hebrews 11:1

Why do we feel nervous when teaching? What is it that we are more scared about? You can take a minute to think about this. 

Some of the answers we got were:

• Boring the people
• Missing the point
• Having no point
• Verbally processing during teaching and not make sense to the hearers
• Not to be able to answer the questions
• Losing control of time
• We are afraid of looking stupid
• We can be afraid of saying the wrong things
• Afraid of teaching heresy

God's word is to amazing and we are so little? Responsibility of teaching right God's word? Amy shares how is good to have a healthy fear of the Lord.

Steps of preparing an excellent lecture (not meaning a perfect one!) include: Consider your audience, choose a book or topic, study and collect resource material, set goals and objectives, mind-map your ideas, determine your lecture sessions, structure your lecture, illustrate your lecture, write your lecture.

A very important note is to give credit to your references, quotes, commentaries and other peoples ideas, thoughts and words. Honor them!

In Titus outreaches we have received these real questions from real church leaders and pastors:

• "If my wife gets old, can I get a younger one?"
• "What is wrong with having many?"
• "What is wrong with going to a witch doctor? I used to do that all the time before being a christian"
• "Can I pray for someone to be saved after they die?"
• "My culture says I can't eat pig and white ants ? Why can't I do that?"
• "How much money do we have to ay to get baptized? How much Jesus paid to get baptize?"
• "How do I teach and preach from the Bible?"

Would you pray, send us or go and teach these real people? God cares for them. And we are willing to go. I am willing to go.

In the meanwhile I am also in the process of worrying myself in my visa renewal to Taiwan which expires just by the time I have to leave for outreach (but I don't want to be homeless in Asia at my return, though that may be a good title for a new blog!)

Michael and Amy Stevens are the leaders and founder, respectively of Titus Project, a ministry of YWAM (Youth With A Mission). They have been in missions for more than 15  years and serving in Taiwan for more almost 10. Their 4 children are blond kids with perfect chinese language and culture within them

TITUS PROJECT has started!

During christmas season and new year celebrations we've been a little extra busy than only having fun. A small group of my missionary coworkers we' ve been cleaning the students dorms, the classroom, working and preparing our teachings and planning the outreaches that we will be leading. It means Titus Project was starting!

As I sit in the classroom, and Amy Stevens whole-heartly shares the testimony on how God called her as a 21 year old very shy girl, to be someone who takes God's word to some of the most needed places in the world, where people has no access to Bible training and pastors and leaders are hungry in understanding God's word to be able to shepherd the flock that God has entrusted in their hands.

I want to share the challenge right now to stop what you are doing, read the book of Titus and open your heart to what God might be calling you to do! Start with prayer!

If you want to help us take God's word to the nations, we are getting ready for outreach and we need your support in prayers, encouragement and finances to pay for plane tickets, bus and train transportation, food, lodging for two months, teaching materials for pastors and leaders where is needed! We need the body of Christ for this!

My goal is to keep a journal on this blog during this Titus project, so that you can feel part of this adventure. Who knows if God stirs up your heart to do the same. That is my prayer, that we may be presented complete before our Lord when we get to see Him face to face and that you may be found faithful in what he has called you to do.

2012

Definitivamente no creo que se va a acabar el mundo. Todo lo contrario, inicio este anio llena de esperanza, gozo y esperando lo mejor de la mano de Dios en mi vida. No quiere decir que no hayan retos, dificultades y obstaculos. Definitivamente ahora mismo tengo mas inciertos que certidumbre en mi vida. Pero una cosa se es que Dios es fiel y bueno!

Todo lo que venga de su mano, viene movido por su corazon de amor.

Asi que esta manana para iniciar este anio, Dios me ha hablado mucho a traves del libro de Eclesiastes. El tiempo de Dios. Y como el lo hace todo hermoso en SU tiempo.

Asi que, glorifico y reconozco a Dios como la maxima autoridad en mi vida. El es bueno. El pasado quedo a tras y me extiendo adelante, con Su gracia y gozo delante de mi.

Este anio quiero ser mas como El, reflejarle mas y mostrar al mundo lo grandioso y glorioso que es nuestro Dios!

Bendiciones y feliz anio nuevo!