ELEVENTH DAY

2 attenders:

Thaís Leiros;
João Calvino;

ACTIONS: As we have promised we brought to the students the readings and and pictures of the first video we have seen together (see below in homework 6). We will see the others in the next classes.

HIGHLIGHTS: The idea of bringing this material is to make a review of what we have seen so far. We have to remember that the class is in English and that the material we showed untill today is part of a series of lectures made by Dr. Ken Han and he speaks in the normal way of speaking, because he is speaking to an American congregation. Also his accent is different from what the Brazilian students of English are used to listen, so bringing the printed materials in the videos are good to cristalize the teaching. We showed last class to the students the first idea of a panflet we are going to use in the schools to share about our class. The students will help to develop the content of this panflet.

HOMEWORK:

1) invite people from outside church to come (still valid);
2) search for names and their meanings in the Bible (open time exercise);
3) search for famous passages in the Bible (open time exercise);
4) study the various versions of John 3:16, choose one of them as the best in their perspective and discuss the others next class (done);
5) have a look at the websites www.answersingenesis.org and teologiaselecionada.blogspot.com/, because these sites bring many concepts on what we discussed in the class relating to creationism (still valid);
6) To watch the video ‘Is Genesis Relevant for Today - Part 1’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);
7) To watch the video ‘Is Genesis Relevant for Today - Part 2’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);
8) To watch the video ‘Did God created in 6 literal days? - Part 1’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);
9) To watch the video ‘Did God created in 6 literal days? - Part 2’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);

WEBSITE: Take a time to visit our website www.ipjaguaribe.net (sorry, meanwhile is only in Portuguese).

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TENTH DAY

3 attenders:

Renato;
André;
João Calvino;

ACTIONS: We opened with a collective word of prayer, after that we showed them the video 'Did God created in 6 literal days? – part 2' from the website www.answersingenesis.org. That’s the second of two videos about the same subject.

HIGHLIGHTS: The video brought again the discussion about the literarity of the Bible. To believe or not in the integrity of the Bible as the Word of God is crucial to the Christian faith. We asked the participants to pray for our class, because the objective of it is to bring non-christians to have a contact with subjects related with the Bible. Let's pray for it! Also we promised the students to make a summary of the four vides we have seen so far and to bring to them with all the readings it was shown during the videos.

HOMEWORK:

1) invite people from outside church to come (still valid);
2) search for names and their meanings in the Bible (open time exercise);
3) search for famous passages in the Bible (open time exercise);
4) study the various versions of John 3:16, choose one of them as the best in their perspective and discuss the others next class (done);
5) have a look at the websites www.answersingenesis.org and teologiaselecionada.blogspot.com/, because these sites bring many concepts on what we discussed in the class relating to creationism (still valid);
6) To watch the video ‘Is Genesis Relevant for Today - Part 1’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);
7) To watch the video ‘Is Genesis Relevant for Today - Part 2’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);
8) To watch the video ‘Did God created in 6 literal days? - Part 1’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);
9) To watch the video ‘Did God created in 6 literal days? - Part 2’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);

WEBSITE: Take a time to visit our website www.ipjaguaribe.net (sorry, meanwhile is only in Portuguese).

CONTACT: Feel free to contact us ipjaguaribe.site@gmail.com.

NINTH DAY

5 attenders:

Lidiane;
André;
Walter Filho;
João Calvino;
Eliézer Júnior;

ACTIONS: We opened with a word of prayer by Júnior, after that we showed them the video 'Did God created in 6 literal days? – part 1' from the website www.answersingenesis.org. That’s the first of two videos about the same subject.

HIGHLIGHTS: The video brought again the discussion about the literarity of the Bible. To believe or not in the integrity of the Bible as the Word of God is crucial to the Christian faith.

HOMEWORK:

1) invite people from outside church to come (still valid);
2) search for names and their meanings in the Bible (open time exercise);
3) search for famous passages in the Bible (open time exercise);
4) study the various versions of John 3:16, choose one of them as the best in their perspective and discuss the others next class (done);
5) have a look at the websites www.answersingenesis.org and teologiaselecionada.blogspot.com/, because these sites bring many concepts on what we discussed in the class relating to creationism (still valid);
6) To watch the video ‘Is Genesis Relevant for Today - Part 1’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);
7) To watch the video ‘Is Genesis Relevant for Today - Part 2’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);
8) To watch the video ‘Did God created in 6 literal days? - Part 1’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);
9) To watch the video ‘Did God created in 6 literal days? - Part 2’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);

WEBSITE: Take a time to visit our website www.ipjaguaribe.net (sorry, meanwhile is only in Portuguese).

CONTACT: Feel free to contact us ipjaguaribe.site@gmail.com.

EIGHTH DAY

5 attenders:

Elias;
André;
Eliete;
João Calvino;
Renato;

ACTIONS: We opened with a word of prayer by André. This time we did it in Portuguese. We showed them the video 'Is Genesis Relevant for Today? Part 2' from the website www.answersingenesis.org as we have promised ot show it to them in the classroom.

HIGHLIGHTS: We had a very good discussion about the video. The students participated a lot talking about what called their attention during the video. A special highlight to what was said by André. When the students were asked if they believe in the Bible in the way the video presented, what is, in the way it is written, André said 'I do believe in the Bible and that God created the earth and the universe, but I question if it was literally in the way it is written'. We said this is the right point in all the discussion 'do we believe in the Bible in the way we read it?' So I left here the question for those who read this blog.

HOMEWORK:

1) invite people from outside church to come (still valid);
2) search for names and their meanings in the Bible (open time exercise);
3) search for famous passages in the Bible (open time exercise);
4) study the various versions of John 3:16, choose one of them as the best in their perspective and discuss the others next class (done);
5) have a look at the websites www.answersingenesis.org and teologiaselecionada.blogspot.com/, because these sites bring many concepts on what we discussed in the class relating to creationism (still valid);
6) To watch the video ‘Is Genesis Relevant for Today - Part 1’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);
7) To watch the video ‘Is Genesis Relevant for Today - Part 2’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);

WEBSITE: Take a time to visit our website www.ipjaguaribe.net (sorry, meanwhile is only in Portuguese).

CONTACT: Feel free to contact us ipjaguaribe.site@gmail.com.

SEVENTH DAY

4 attenders:

Elias;
Eliete;
João Calvino;
Lidiane;

ACTIONS: We opened and closed with a word of prayer. The opening was by Lidiane and the closing by Elias. We read the text 'Summary of the Books of the Bible' till the fifth book – Deuteronomy, from http://www.holybible.com/resources/KJV_DFND/summary.htm.

HIGHLIGHTS: We have planned to talk a bit about the first video we showed last class and start the second, but unfortunately we forgot an essential RCA to P2 cable to make the connections between the laptop and the sound system. The infraestructure of the room is something that we will have to solve. The idea is to have everything we need in the room so we haven't to bring and take back home anything that we need. Maybe we wil have to present to the Counsel of our church (the Elders) a plan for this special class. I say special, because no other class has these features and they never presented a plan like this. We are trying to do everything wasting the minimun amount of money possible. During some previous classes we had a doubt about the use of SHALL. Of course this is a class to study the Bible, but since the students are all Brazilians some English doubts will always happen, so we sorted out this doubt and promised the students to send them an e-mail with some links for them to confirm for themselves. Some new words received special attention as APTLY and ATONEMENT. These were also words that we promised to send to the students by e-mail a proper definition.

HOMEWORK:

1) invite people from outside church to come (still valid);
2) search for names and their meanings in the Bible (open time exercise);
3) search for famous passages in the Bible (open time exercise);
4) study the various versions of John 3:16, choose one of them as the best in their perspective and discuss the others next class (done);
5) have a look at the websites www.answersingenesis.org and teologiaselecionada.blogspot.com/, because these sites bring many concepts on what we discussed in the class relating to creationism (still valid);
6) To watch the video ‘Is Genesis Relevant for Today - Part 1’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);
7) To watch the video ‘Is Genesis Relevant for Today - Part 2’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);

WEBSITE: Take a time to visit our website www.ipjaguaribe.net (sorry, meanwhile is only in Portuguese).

CONTACT: Feel free to contact us ipjaguaribe.site@gmail.com.

SIXTH DAY

7 attenders:

Elias;
Renato;
Felipe;
Eliezer Júnior;
Eliete;
João Calvino;
Priscila;

ACTIONS: We opened with a colletive word of prayer in which I pronounced the words and the students repeated them. We showed them the video 'Is Genesis Relevant for Today? Part 1' from the website www.answersingenesis.org as we have promised them we should do in this morning.

HIGHLIGHTS: Some students are not willing to pray by themselves, there are some who are more open and extrovert and also are more skillful to pray without any help, if we have a day without an extrovert and able student to pray by him/herself we will always guide them in prayers. All of our classes will be always opened and closed by a word of prayer. We had some problems with the video, because our sound systems wasn't there. This is a particular aspect that we must solve in the future. We are working on that, but we were not able to sort it out yet. After the video some of the students said that the level of the video is too high for them. I know it is, but this was done by purpose and I hope with time they get more interested in these challenges.

HOMEWORK:

1) invite people from outside church to come (still valid);
2) search for names and their meanings in the Bible (open time exercise);
3) search for famous passages in the Bible (open time exercise);
4) study the various versions of John 3:16, choose one of them as the best in their perspective and discuss the others next class (done);
5) have a look at the websites www.answersingenesis.org and teologiaselecionada.blogspot.com/, because these sites bring many concepts on what we discussed in the class relating to creationism (still valid);
6) To watch the video ‘Is Genesis Relevant for Today - Part 1’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);
7) To watch the video ‘Is Genesis Relevant for Today - Part 2’ during the week to be discussed in the next class (still valid);

WEBSITE: Take a time to visit our website www.ipjaguaribe.net (sorry, meanwhile is only in Portuguese).

CONTACT: Feel free to contact us ipjaguaribe.site@gmail.com.

FIFTH DAY

10 attenders:

Elias;
Renato;
Felipe;
Eliezer Júnior;
Walter Filho;
Eliete;
João Calvino;
Lidiane Gonçalves;
André;
Lidiane;

ACTIONS: We opened with a word of prayer by one of the students (Eliete), after that we played the music Heart of Worship. We read all the versions of John 3:16 that we found in the website http://www.biblegateway.com/ and discussed a bit about the differences in the passages. At the end of the class we presented to the students the video that we will use in the next class ‘Is Genesis Relevant for Today - Part 1’, from the websiet www.answersingenesis.org. We just showed the begin of it.

HIGHLIGHTS: The music played in the class and some others that we will bring in the future is part of our intention to practice them with the students so that they may be able to sing them outside the classes in some other special moments that we will be talking in the right time. We will keep studying the way the Bible is arranged, but the subject about creationism will be very explored due to its strong appeal. It was also very grateful to see the students interest in contribute with the development of the classes. Lidiane Barbosa brought some more musics that we can use in the future. Eliete brought some magazines (RTS Reformed, Creation, Answers Update and Answers). We suggested the students to see the video proposed during the week so they will get acquainted with it and we will be able to discuss it in the class. This will be the first task in the next class.

HOMEWORK: 1) invite people from outside church to come; 2) search for names and their meanings in the Bible; 3) search for famous passages in the Bible; 4) study the various versions of John 3:16, choose one of them as the best in their perspective and discuss the others next class; 5) have a look at the websites www.answersingenesis.org and teologiaselecionada.blogspot.com/, because these sites bring many concepts on what we discussed in the class relating to creationism; 6) To watch the video ‘Is Genesis Relevant for Today - Part 1’ during the week to be discussed in the next class.

WEBSITE: Take a time to visit our website www.ipjaguaribe.net (sorry, meanwhile is only in Portuguese).

CONTACT: Feel free to contact us ipjaguaribe.site@gmail.com.

FOURTH DAY

7 attenders:

Elias;
Renato;
Carol;
Eliezer Júnior;
Samuel Rocha;
Eliete;
João Calvino;

ACTIONS: Once again we played the music Heart of Worship, by Matt Redman in a version sang by Michael W. Smith in the class. It was very pleasant to see the students singing the song by heart. We started to read the material about the Summary of the Books of the Bible. This will be the initial material we will use in the class. From this material we will develop many actions. We also used the introduction of Genesis written in Good News Bible. Many concepts were discussed just from this brief introduction.

HIGHLIGHTS: As we said before it was a pleasure to see the students singing the song by heart. We intend to bring other songs from time to time and ask them to memorize. Music will be always used in the classes. All the material was sent to the students who are attending the class by e-mail during the week, so they had time to memorize and also to study the material. They were encouraged to have a briefcase with all the material they will be receiving from now on and bring them always to the class. Also they are encouraged to share this material with friends that they invite.

HOMEWORK: 1) invite people from outside church to come; 2) search for names and their meanings in the Bible; 3) search for famous passages in the Bible; 4) study the various versions of John 3:16, choose one of them as the best in their perspective and discuss the others next class; 5) have a look at the websites www.answersingenesis.org and teologiaselecionada.blogspot.com/, because these sites brings many concepts on what we discussed in the class relating to creationism.

WEBSITE: Take a time to visit our website www.ipjaguaribe.net (sorry, meanwhile is only in Portuguese).

CONTACT: Feel free to contact us ipjaguaribe.site@gmail.com.

THIRD DAY

7 attenders:

Elias;
Renato;
Felipe;
Eliezer Júnior;
Elaine;
Eliete;
João Calvino;

ACTIONS: We used the music Heart of Worship, by Matt Redman in a version sang by Michael W. Smith in the class. This was the music that we tried to present in the first day. We gave the students a fill in the blanks page with many of the music words missing. Also we didn’t offered them the title and asked them to guess it by the lyrics. Also we gave the presents the passage John 3:16 in many different versions.

HIGHLIGHTS: The music was presented using the same sound equipments presented in the second day. The music was donwloaded using www.downloadyoutubevideos.com and played using a FLV player installed in the laptop. In the site to download the youtube videos you can find links to download FLV players also, but this was not needed. The verse of John was left for homework. The attenders must choose among them what version is the best in their point of view. We will discuss the other versions next class. The versions were also taken from http://www.biblegateway.com/.

HOMEWORK: 1) invite people from outside church to come; 2) search for names and their meanings in the Bible; 3) search for famous passages in the Bible; 4) study the various versions of John 3:16, choose one of them as the best in their perspective and discuss the others next class.

WEBSITE: Take a time to visit our website www.ipjaguaribe.net (sorry, meanwhile is only in Portuguese).

CONTACT: Feel free to contact us ipjaguaribe.site@gmail.com.

SECOND DAY

8 attenders:

Elias;
Renato;
Marcolina;
André;
Walter Filho (arrived at the end);
Eliete;
Rafael (arrived at the end);
João Calvino;

ACTIONS: We reviwed the Bible names with audio for some of them, after that we talked about the Bible division, giving special attention the Old Testament division. We talked about the inner division by book types. We also read some Bible passages in many different versions, listening some of them in the sound system.

HIGHLIGHTS: We used an amplified loud speaker to have audio in the class. The apparatus was a laptop connected to mobile internet and accessing the audios in the website http://www.biblegateway.com/. By using a P2 to RCA cable we have the sound in the loud speaker amplified box. The sound is not good. We are having ground wire problems. We will try to fix this with time.

HOMEWORK: 1) invite people from outside church to come; 2) search for names and their meanings in the Bible; 3) search for famous passages in the Bible; 4) memorize John 3:16.

WEBSITE: Take a time to visit our website www.ipjaguaribe.net (sorry, meanwhile is only in Portuguese).

CONTACT: Feel free to contact us ipjaguaribe.site@gmail.com.

FIRST DAY

10 attenders:

Elias;
Renato;
Marcolina;
Domitila;
André;
Lidiane;
Lidiane Gonçalves;
Estevão (left before the end);
Walter Filho (left before the end);
Carol;

ACTIONS: We started our class showing the Bible names and their pronunciations. Some books will need to have an special attention because their pronounciation is a bit difficult to memorize as in Chronicles, Haggai, some of the prophets. We will be from time to time developing this. After this we developed many activities comparing the biblical names and their meanings as for Moses, Jesus, Israel, etc; also we talked about the time line in which our intention was to show God's eternity and our very short time life.

HIGHLIGHTS: It was not possible to show them the music choosen (The Heart of Worship). The CD player didn't work. Need to prepare more next time.

HOMEWORK: 1) invite people from outside church to come; 2) search for names and their meanings in the Bible; 3) search for famous passages in the Bible.

WEBSITE: Take a time to visit our website www.ipjaguaribe.net (sorry, meanwhile is only in Portuguese).

CONTACT: Feel free to contact us ipjaguaribe.site@gmail.com.