As part of Langham Preaching’s vision to train indigenous believers to deliver training in their own contexts, an exciting workshop for leaders of preaching seminars took place in Zambia earlier in the year, with two indigenous men delivering part of the training.
Delegates came from Zambia, DR Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanzania. Emeka, the regional coordinator in Nigeria also attended, alongside two interns from Burkina Faso and Togo.
Armand and Roland were invaluable to the training, and are anxious to develop and facilitate the workshop for their own countries in the near future.
Answering questions
The workshop is designed using trans-cultural education traditions. There are no lectures; information is disseminated through answering questions, through participants’ own reading and group discussions. Each group plans a lesson and then teaches it to the rest of the group. The topics are established by the class on the first day, from their own analysis of their needs. This course focused on how to find the big idea of the passage, the structure of it, how to make the connection between the world of the Bible and the world today, and the structure of the sermon. Paul’s letter to Philemon formed the basis of the workshop teaching.
Upon returning home, Jean-Crispin, one of the participants from DR Congo, had not been reunited with his family. They had fled into the bush because of the soldiers pillaging and raping, and taking over their homes. It was humbling for the Westerners involved in this training to see the levels of commitment to the word of God and the training of their fellow Christians, as participants risked so much to take part.
