Lindy and Carol Drake your connection to tribal missions 
We are teaching through the book of Titus. Tomorrow we will be in chapter 2 where Paul encourages Titus to instruct the various age groups in the church to live in such a way as to bring honor to the Lord and His teaching. What stands out in these particular verses is that the older ladies are encouraged to train the younger ladies how to love their husbands and children, to be pure, to work at home, to be kind, and to be submissive to their husbands. This stood out to me because you can’t train anyone like this without using the Word of God, and we don’t have anyone at this point teaching the word of God in public meetings, other than we missionaries.
So I suggested to the group of believers that we divide up into small groups after the teaching. I asked Moises to lead the group that doesn’t speak Guanano. Moises speaks Cubeo and Spanish. I asked Mario to lead a group of young men, and I asked Kiri and Delfina, Moses’ wife, to lead a group of ladies. I explained the purpose of dividing up would be to discuss what had just been taught, and to share personal prayer requests more intimately than we can in the larger group. I wanted to give Moses and Delfina, Mario and his sister Kiri some experience in actually using what they were learning from the Word of God to train and encourage others.
But it didn’t happen like I’d planned. When it came time to divide up into small groups, a major crises developed over where they would go. The problem, it turns out, was not that there was not sufficient space for three separate groups, but that they didn’t really want to divide up in the first place. The experiment wasn’t a total loss. Mario shared his testimony with the entire group: "For a long time my life style did not match what I was learning from God. I was a drinker and I caused my family much grief. I was embarrassed before the Lord because I knew things were not right. I prayed that he would give me the desire to be what he wanted me to be. God is answering that prayer. I am married now and very happy with my wife. I have experienced God’s work in my life. Like seeds planted in a garden finally produce fruit, I sense there has been some progress in my life."
Delfina took an original approach and with paper and pencil drew a sketch of what she was understanding from the teaching … how God taught Paul, Paul taught Titus, Paul left Titus on Crete to teach others, as soon as the believers there grew in God’s ways Titus was to appoint leaders and move on. You would have enjoyed seeing how she got all that into a picture she drew!
