REVELATION STUDIES REPORT Prepared by the Reverend Tim Snyder
From Tuesday, July 22 until Saturday, July 26, I have been and will be teaching at The Servants Academy at Communion Baptist Church for five two-hour sessions.. I was asked to give a study that covered the first three chapters of Revelation. The Servants Academy is a school within the church in which students take Bible courses as a part of and in preparation for ministry.
As I began to present the detailed lessons, I was deeply moved and appreciated the serious study that the students apply to the Bible. The questions were thought provoking and conveyed their serious interest. In fact, I purposely skipped some material, thinking that it would bore the listeners and provide more detail than was necessary. When I provided a time for questions, a young woman asked a question that required the very information I had skipped. As an indication of their dedication, I met one student who drove three hours to attend the classes. Frankly, it touches me to think that someone would go to such an effort in a class I am teaching. I just hope that the Lord will cover any of my weaknesses in teaching and give him what he needs through these teachings to better teach the church whom he serves as pastor. I also appreciate the diligence the translators have shown in communicating the ideas and information I am attempting to convey. What a joy it is to teach such students who are so hungry for the word of God.
BLIND MINISTRY The Reverend Tim Snyder
For the past three days, I have been visiting in the homes of blind people living in Agua Blanca. Many of the blind people living in Agua Blanca moved to the community (it is actually called Ciudad de Espanya) after Hurricane Mitch destroyed their homes. As I visited these blind people, I was delighted as several confessed their faith in Christ. They seemed to be a community that contained several Christians without a unifying purpose beyond the fact that they are blind or visually impaired. The Agua Blanca Baptist Mission wants to reach and serve this community.
As we visited the team with me and I communicated that we were their to promote their service to Christ. To further enable that service, we have been able to acquire something called a Proclaimer. The Proclaimer is a Spanish New Testament in a box with three possible power sources: electricity, solar charging and manual power provided by turning a hand crank. We have also received two donated computers, which we are placing in the Agua Blanca church so that both blind people can learn how to use the computer, which will provide a further enhancement to their lives as well as provide possibilities for employment.
As we began to share these ideas with the blind people we visited, they immediately understand that we were there to encourage and bless them. In fact, on short notice we were able to conduct the first meeting of a "listening group" for using the Proclaimer to listen to the Word of God. The text we played for this first meeting was John 1.1-14. What great fun we all enjoyed as we turned the crank to hear the Bible. While electricity was available, we all gained a new appreciation for those who have no electricity and must provide hand-crank power to hear God's Word. The blind people also appreciated the fact that folks in the church would seek them out and provide transportation to a quickly called meeting. Even after I left the church today, two blind people came to the church to learn about what was happening. God is beginning to do something great in Agua Blanca to add to the great things He has done, and what I think is so wonderful is the fact that He, our great God, is putting a bunch of blind people right in the middle of it all. Praise be to our great God! I am delighted that Spoken Word Ministries and Fishers of Men can work together to be a part of what God is doing in Honduras.
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