Time to update everyone on what's coming. On August 27th I'll be leaving for Accra, Ghana for a 2-week English language training institute. The goal is to have the 17+ participants learn 1) how to use the new English curriculum, Using Everyday English, and 2) how to teach other teachers to use it when they return home.


This is really the first time this has been attempted (by me, that is!), so I've outlined both weeks the best I could. This is pretty critical training institute in that my goal is to reproduce trainers before I get too old to travel anywhere! And the need for trainers is crucial to keep this unique language ministry expanding.


I've tried to upload a picture of the cover of the new English curriculum, but this blog either doesn't like PDF files. So, you'll have to trust me when I tell you that the first book, Today! is completed and past "field-testing." Book 2: Yesterday! is still in a field-test condition for a few more months until I'm satisfied that it is effective. And the 3rd book, Tomorrow! is only partially finished.


* Do pray for my 2-week training in Ghana; it's critical I believe for the West Africa ministry.


* Pray as I spend time completing the 3rd book of the Using Everyday English series; and as missionaries and nationals use it in their ministries


* Pray for Daniel Awolou from Benin, West Africa as he applies for a visa to come to the US for 3 months. He will live with Leona and me and will spend large amounts of time working on his English skills, particularly his oral skills, so he can work with English-speaking primer teams in West Africa. We're considering mid-March of 2010.


* Pray for my training workshop (one week) in Planeta Rica, Colombia, So. America the first week in December. Pray for Kent Davy to join me for this trip.

This is what I look like in front of my computer for way too many hours per week!!!

Blessings...