Here is the 2nd e-mail sent by Kevin , continued from part 1 yesterday:
Training week started today. Since the students did not arrive until 11:00, the other two teachers taught their lessons instead of me. There were about 25 present by 1:00.
The next two days, our guest speaker who is in charge of the Bible League in southeast Asia is presenting. He is an international teacher and he will teach in Telugu, so the students should really be in for a great treat. I pray that they all come.
In other words, I will be teaching very little this week. My main focus will be to try and get the Ambassador Institute curriculum into Telugu. If I could get a copy of the Bible in Telugu, that would be fabulous, but so far 
there have been as many road blocks as there has been progress. Kind of normal I guess. Last summer I sent spiral bound books to the main teacher here in India. The books arrived but were never given to him. Now they are lost! So, I printed the English copy over again. Now after teaching for a year, he at least has the curriculum in English. Sometimes my perception of a priority is not shared by everyone else. What to do? Deal with it. Sometimes that is just the way it is. The communication barrier of distance and language makes things like this hundreds of times more difficult to pass on.
Jim and I continued a tradition started last year. We took the 10th class out for supper last night and had a great time with them. This group of students literally study 13 1/2 hours a day for 6 da
ys of the week. Sometimes they continue on Sunday as well. They start at 7:00, they take a one hour break for lunch and ½ hour for supper then they finish at 10:00 p.m. They take their college entrance exams in March and if they pass with high marks they can win a free seat in a college for 6 years. If not, they will be laborers for the rest of their lives. They carry an enormous pressure on them. Last year’s class from this school did very well. These students became close friends of mine and when they found out I was here, they all came back from college to visit me on Sunday night.
Out of the group of 8 that were able to go with us, only two had been to a restaurant before. Then we went to ice cream and for half of them it was their first time to eat ice cream as well. After we returned to the chapel, I asked them what they were worth. Several said they were not worth 
anything. That is so sad! Then we went into the whole thing about how their value could only be defined by Christ. He is the one that set their value with the cost of his life. Created by the Father, Redeemed by the Son, Indwelt by the Holy Spirit.
It was really fun, they were listening to every word, and the meal that they had eaten was a small picture of the fact that they really were valuable. I want so badly for them to know that regardless of how they do on some test that compares people with one another, their value would not change if they passed or failed.
Well, 5 nights and 4 days left before we start the journey back home…
Kevin
