Theo and Martha Enns Connecting YOU to tribal missions Pictures in February 2012
Three (300) hundred pictures?
As if writing seventy 10-page lessons for each grade isn’t enough… Martha is now helping me collect 300 picture samples from which we can get illustrations for these Bible curriculums. Some of these pictures will become coloring pages for primary school children. Others will become the “pictures say 1000 words” that the children can use to follow and remember the chronology of the through-the-Bible stories. When we go to Haiti in April,
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Tags: Bible curriculum, Firm Foundation school curriculum, French Bible lessons, Haiti
Scopes in January 2012
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We had a great visit with the Lieb family from Haiti last month, as they were
traveling through the area on their “home assignment”. We have since
been able to send them a Scope & Sequence proposition, laying out what the
Grade Two Bible lessons would teach, along with several sample lessons. Chris
will be showing these to the Baptist Haiti Mission schools’ director for
evaluation. We plan to finish compiling and writing the remaining 30 lessons or
so, and getting them all checked by the folks in Haiti, by the end of June,
Lord willing. We are praying about Martha and I going to Haiti for a few weeks
in April,
Tags: Bible curriculum, Côte d'Ivoire, French Bible lessons, Haiti, New Tribes Mission, NTM, Palaka
AnProFi in December 2011
Another Project Finished!
The 350-page teachers’ manual for Grade One Bible lessons is completed! It is being printed by the Baptist Haiti Mission, for use in their 330 schools in northern Haiti. This month I will start working on planning the lesson lay-out for their Grade Two Bible lessons. Then in January, Lord willing, I will be working on the Scope and Sequence for the international school curriculum that New Tribes Mission is developing. This is the curriculum that we will be taking to Haiti for writing the French lessons for their Grade Three through Grade Six Bible classes. For now, we are continuing to work on these projects from here in Alabama, as we wait for our house to sell.
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Tags: Bible curriculum, Côte d'Ivoire, Firm Foundation school curriculum, French Bible lessons, Glaro, Haiti, Loron, Palaka
QUESTIONS in November 2011
Questions, but not questioning God!
ordination of the first Loron pastor/elders
It hardly seems possible that we had packed up to move to Florida a year ago, now, but here we are, still serving from Alabama. We do keep busy working on our “long-distance” grade one Bible lessons project for Haiti. We praise the Lord that in October, we found some more Haitian people to check the Creole translations of the Bible stories for each of the 34 lessons (teaching through the book of Genesis) for grade one. Of course we really do enjoy serving the Lord here, as well, including singing in the choir (for Martha) and me teaching a senior adult SS class and helping in the church “sound room” Wednesdays for choir practice, and then in 3 services on Sundays. This last month our realtor has “shown” our house to several different people, but none have yet made an offer to buy. So our question to our loving Father is: when do You want to free us to move on,
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Tags: Bible curriculum, Côte d'Ivoire, Firm Foundation school curriculum, French Bible lessons, Haiti, Loron
Excitement in October 2011
A new church is born!!
Norbert Yao family from Côte d'Ivoire
Just today, as I write this (Oct.1st), we have heard that a new body of believers was started this weekend among another previously-unreached people group. This was in Papua New Guinea, among the Siar tribe. Another piece to the Revelations 5:9 puzzle is coming together! [For more details click on
http://usa.ntm.org/field-news/church-born-among-siars]
And in the Loron tribe in west Africa, they have another milestone coming up this month. Our missionary collegues will be formally appointing elders (teaching-pastors) to head up that young church
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Tags: Bible curriculum, Côte d'Ivoire, Firm Foundation school curriculum, French Bible lessons, Haiti, Praise & prayer list
Countdown in September 2011
10, 9, 8, 7 … « Dix, neuf, huit, sept, … »
School kids in Haiti counting down
I find my days filled with editing, proof-reading and multiple minute details, as the countdown for preparing these grade one Bible lessons for Haiti is upon us. Their schools start October 3rd, and all of the final checking hasn’t been completed yet. The first main French language check is almost finished, but
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Tags: Bible curriculum, Côte d'Ivoire, Firm Foundation school curriculum, French Bible lessons, Haiti, Ivory Coast, translation
Alone in August 2011
Little girl in Haiti
I’m home alone!
Martha flew out to California, to visit our oldest son Aaron, Avé, and our three grandchildren (ages 5, 3 & just-turned 2). And I’m at home working on the Haiti Bible lessons for grade one. We are a bit behind schedule right now on these lessons, since working on a translation from long distance really does slow down the process. We are trying to express Bible truths in simple French, for 6-year-olds who speak only Creole at home,
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Tags: Bible curriculum, Côte d'Ivoire, Firm Foundation school curriculum, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Palaka, translation
AHH! in July 2011
Here’s what I remember when I say AHH!
editing Haiti Bible lessons
A – reminds me of Africa, where our co-workers have returned for the summer again, working on Bible translation into the Palaka language, and encouraging the fledgling native church. They are also teaching them some computer skills to help in the Bible translation process which the missionaries have to work on from afar.
H - reminds me of Haiti, where there are at least 330 grade one classrooms of children who need Bible lessons printed and ready for when school starts next Fall.
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Tags: Bible curriculum, Côte d'Ivoire, Firm Foundation school curriculum, Florida, Haiti, Praise & prayer list
Waiting in June 2011
It’s a girl!
Naomi & Martha
Naomi Violet Miller was born June 9th, at 1:38am. Mother (Heidi) and baby are doing great… so are Opa and Nana. Read the rest of this entry »
We have enjoyed being able to come to Idaho to wait for this little one with Mark, Heidi and their family. You see, waiting is one of the lessons the Lord is helping us learn these days – as we wait for our house to sell.
Tags: Bible curriculum, Firm Foundation school curriculum, French Bible lessons, Haiti, Praise & prayer list
Safe in May 2011
The tornado did not hit our house or the Peterson house we just sold.
That’s praise the Lord times two: that the Peterson house sold, and that we are safe!!
Tornado damage in Rainsville, AL
Yes, Rainsville, Alabama was hit hard, with over 30 people who died in the tornado from our town of 5,000 alone, and many more, even friends we know, have lost homes, some have lost their businesses and some have lost places where they work. We personally only had the northern-Alabama-wide lack of electricity for almost 4 days,
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Tags: Alabama tornado, Bible curriculum, Firm Foundation school curriculum, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Praise & prayer list