The little bamboo school house that the Inapang community in Papua New Guinea built last week was ready to host the nervous and excited group that showed up for their first literacy class on Tuesday.
"For the first time ever, we sat down and began to teach a class in their own language," wrote missionaries Bill and Kelly Housley.
The week began with ground-level concepts to teach the Inapangs how to read and write their own language. "We started with how to hold a pencil," the Housleys wrote.
The class is very mixed, men and women, old and young, with some who know another language and some who don't. The two village leaders who are attending "are worried to death that they won't be able to learn it, but did great on [their] first day."
The missionaries told the students "not to be stingy with [their] knowledge" but to help each other.
"We were so pleased to see those who already know a bit finish their work and go sit down beside the ladies and older men and help them along," the Housleys wrote. "What a great discipleship model, and a good way to find out who is patient enough to be a teacher later."
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