Editor’s note: This is installment #3 from the Fall Inquiry Newsletter. Stay tuned for 3 more installments!
Ukraine
Pastor Andy and Monica Coyle are serving in Ukraine with Eastern European Mission network. Their desire is to offer solid evangelical Lutheran training at the school and make Biblical education available for lay people as well as clergy. The endorsement of the Dean of the Seminary in St. Petersburg, was also accompanied with a visit from the bishops from across Russia. They came to Odessa to preview the school. The opportunity to train people is great, but the pressure to start well is also important.
Ecuador
Last spring, at a WMF rally in Sebeka, MN, Pastor Kevin met Blanca Gomezcoello from Cuenca, Ecuador. She saw the oral style of teaching and told her husband, Pastor Santiago, that they needed to consider using that style when they returned home. In June, Justo and Patricia Pilmann left for Cuenca as missionaries. They met up with the Gomezcoellos and the Paachas to join them in the ministry. At a staff planning meeting there was a united interest in using the AI curriculum and a desire to implement the training. This November, Pastor Kevin will join the staff to train the trainers and to meet with the home Bible Studies that are going to start using the AI material.
Brazil
AI training is in transition in Brazil. Pastor Anilton received the opportunity to teach at a government university. He wants to continue AI training, but his new job and location won’t allow him to keep the role of Academic Dean in Camp Maurao that he previously held. He hopes able to continue his work with the distance students. We congratulate him in this new job at the same time we will miss him.
