The Inapang people of Papua New Guinea will soon hear evangelistic Bible lessons. The team of missionaries has taught literacy and is now preparing to teach the evangelistic Bible series.
Five of the 15 Inapangs who learned to read and write are now teaching others what they've learned. There are three classes each morning. Many of the village leaders are now enrolled in one of the classes and are learning to read and write.
"A strong church is a Bible-reading church -- the Word is the sword of the Spirit," wrote missionary Daniel Moore. Daniel and his co-worker, Bill Housley, are available to help the new teachers but their main focus has become getting ready to teach evangelistic Bible lessons.
Alex, Daniel's Inapang co-worker, is hearing many of the Bible lessons for the first time as he helps translate. After he and Daniel worked on the story of Noah, he said, "This is really good."
Daniel prepares the lessons with Markus, Alex and Kletus. They understand very little of who God actually is and are amazed that the spirits they fear so much are far inferior to God.
Bill translates the Bible passages for teaching with Kletus and Ampiankon helping him. Pray that the team, will find all the key words and phrases needed to clearly translate God's Word into Inapang. They have found words for "holy" and "sin" and "love." But need to find ways to express "redeem," "priest" and other key words in the Inapang language. A huge amount of work must be done to prepare to teach evangelistic lessons.
Bill and Daniel will be teaching Monday through Friday for three or four months in order to cover the entire series. Pray that God will prepare the hearts of the Inapang people to hear the Gospel message. Pray that as Kletus, Alex, Marcus and Ampiankon help prepare lessons and translate Scriptures that they will believe the message of Truth.
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