by Gary Clow
Have you ever done something you really didn’t want to do, thought would be useless to do, but did it because you were asked to? You started the job and just after beginning realized that it was not as bad as you thought, in fact, it was great. Ever had that experience? I just did.
World Team asked me, and you, to take the new online course, “Evangelism: Abundantly Sowing the Seed.” I’ve been a missionary for a long time, I have taken so many evangelism courses I can’t even count them, let along remember all of them. My thought was, “Okay, if I have to, one more.” I enrolled and prepared for the worst. Boy, was I surprised.
This evangelism course is not anything like I thought it would be. To begin with, it is first rate adult learning. It is an online course, based on forums where you share your thoughts with the small group of people who are part of your class. There is a little bit of reading each day, a page or two, followed by answering a couple of questions, then a lot of commenting and sharing with one another in the online forum. It is really, really good, really well done. I loved it.
We had a great cross section of people in our group. There were new missionaries struggling through language school who needed to know it would get better. Others, in very challenging settings, were completely discouraged with so little fruit from their labour and just needed a word of encouragement from someone else. There were others who had vibrant ministries, some who had been on a field for months, others on a field for decades. We interacted with one another, helped one another and through the online forum discussed ideas and shared the things that work in our setting. I could not believe the impact of this course. And, as you can see, it got me excited. Have you taken the course? If you haven’t please sign up right away. E-mail Ginny Crapser to enroll. You will bless others and they will bless you. This is too good to miss.
