Gate Ministries

On Sabbath afternoon several Maxwell students and a few staff ventured outside of the protective walls of Advent Hill. We were reaching out to the local inhabitants of Rongai. After we broke up into groups, we began handing out literature to anyone whom we walked by. I buddied up with Brian and Pempho and the three of us crossed the busy street and headed for Rongai.

On the way we gave out literature to all kinds of people. One lady asked us if she could go now after we had finished our spiel about the literature. Some folks spoke little English, so I left the conversation with Brian and Pempho who can both speak Swahili. One man was obviously drunk, but he happily took the pamphlets anyway. Our group made a stop at the near by car wash and found a man waiting as his car was getting cleaned. As we handed him the literature he asked us whether or not we were with the people who were burning the Quran today. We quickly assured him that we were not doing anything of the sort and told him we were from Maxwell Academy. Maxwell has a very high reputation around here for being a place that contains honest, Christian people who can be trusted and reliable. It's a good feeling to be at a school where you can be sure that God is a part of everything that happens there.

A few students talking to locals about the Word of God.

Brian and Pempho

Sabbath School Activity

This last Sabbath I was asked to do a special feature for Sabbath School before the congregation split into their various study groups. So I agreed, and then began to brainstorm as to what I could do that would be short, memorable, and easy to do. I came up with this: Ask for 15 volunteers and then hand each one of them a piece of paper with a word or two on it. They are not allowed to talk or show anyone else what is on their piece of paper. The papers have the words from a Bible verse, in my case, I used John 14:6; it has roughly 15 usable words, hence the 15 volunteers, and 15 pieces of paper. I then told all of the students who volunteered that they had to line up in the correct order of the verse by only saying the word or words on their piece of paper. I then chose one more person from the congregation to put the words(people) in the correct order. They were all basically right anyway, because most of them just talked and pointed the rest in the right direction. Oh well, in theory it worked well, but in practice, it needed a little fine tuning, but I think the general lesson came across after I explained a little at the end. This would have been better if I had used the body of Christ verses instead. But I guess I only have room to improve.

My PE Room Project

When I first arrived here at Maxwell Academy I was shown around campus. And when I was shown the PE room where I was to be working part of the time, I knew I had my work cut out for me. I worked with Jessica, my co-teacher for PE the entire week before school started to get it operational. We gutted the entire room, had the paint scraped, had it repainted, and then put everything that was still good back in. It looks like new now.

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