Skittles: Taste the Rainbow

What a colorful bunch we are! We finished up our three weeks of Curriculum Development class today. This class was the second part of Teaching Considerations and focused on the practical considerations, procedural tools, and challenges of producing contextualized Foundational Bible Teaching lessons in a cross-cultural church planting ministry. While our previous class, Teaching Considerations, focused on the context, this class focused on the content. Mixed in with lectures, was the hands-on project of creating a lesson for the tribe we "visited" in Papua New Guinea which we wrote about in "A Visit to Papua New Guinea" back in September.

Not only did we have to teach our lesson but, in the development process, we had to be sure to include acknowledgement of barriers and bridges within the tribe's overarching cultural themes that would aid in understanding, include high-level questions, and help the listeners enter into the story by tying in practical aspects of their culture. It was a challenge to develop a lesson that reached the worldview level but we really enjoyed working on this with our team!

Because the lesson we chose to teach was about Noah and the Flood, our team decided that we should each wear a color of the rainbow. When our team member got to the part about God sending the rainbow as a sign of His promise to never again send a global flood, we all got up and stood in a line making everyone laugh! We had considered doing the can-can but didn't want to risk injury so we decided against it. Unfortunately, it wasn't until that morning that Cameron had the ingenious idea to pass out Skittles during our lesson which probably would have earned us an automatic "A" because who doesn't like free candy?! However, with only an hour until we presented, there wasn't enough time to run to the store but it's the thought that counts!

The ironic part is that, while we presented our lesson on Tuesday, for the the debrief of the whole class today we were once again all wearing the colors of the rainbow! Except me as I was wearing white and black but my team said I was the clouds. That's a sign of a good team when you coordinate within the same week and didn't even plan it the second time!

This coming week we start Christian Life which should be awesome!

United in Christ,

Caitlin and Cameron

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