I recently returned from a three week visit to Malawi, Africa. I went with a team from my church to the African Bible College in Lilongwe. While there I taught a course in writing Bible studies to the Junior and Senior women at the college. I used parts of my Titus 2 study as examples for them to follow. The final week several team members and I divided the women up into six small groups, and each group took one of the training topics in Titus 2:4-5 and worked on questions to be used in a version of the study for African women.
There were a total of twenty-one women in the two classes, and I not only had the privilege of teaching them, but also met with each of them one-on-one. I explained to them that I was looking for stories and examples I could use in the Bible study, and they were very open and willing to talk about their lives with me. I did get a number of excellent examples, but need more. So I have written a rough draft of the new study with many holes that need to be filled. My hope is that when the classes field test it, more stories will surface and we can insert them into the book before it is published.
It was an amazing three weeks and I was so excited to see how God opened doors of opportunity and gave me such wonderful women to work with. I look forward to what He will do with the study over the next few months and years.
