| training the trainers |
October 2005 indexOne of the many vital roles that Crosslinks mission partners can undertake is not only passing on their skills and training others, but also equipping others to become trainers.
|
|
Karen Salmon has worked in Ethiopia for several years as a nurse trainer, but recently she has been teaching HIV/AIDS Awareness at the Orthodox seminary, using the Bible in her teaching. After an introductory course, she started a Training of Trainers course to encourage trainee priests and monks to look to the Bible for answers to the awful problem of AIDS. Karen also teaches people with physical disabilities, women civil servants, and has started faith-based HIV teaching for the inmates at the prison. “My desire is to have freedom to visit and share with those dying of AIDS there. Pray that I’ll have wisdom in the use of my time when invitations for such training courses come in, and if it is God’s will that he’ll open doors for me to visit prisoners dying of AIDS.”
The Ethiopian Evangelical Church, Mekane Yesus, opened a boarding school in Hosanna in 1982. Jenny Merritt, an experienced teacher of the deaf, taught there until she became involved in starting a second school in Nekemte, to meet the needs of children in Western Ethiopia and to train teachers of the deaf. The remit of the school broadened and it now also offers rehabilitation for people with disabilities. “Twice
a week a small group of deaf people, from 6-40 years of
age, meet at school. Two teachers share teaching sign
language. Slowly their faces become alert as they begin to communicate.
Not only can they begin to relate to those around, they
can also learn about and find a personal relationship with
God.” |
|
|
|
||
