GBC Class Pictures (Second Semester 2011)

Back row (left to right): Ashok, John, Amit, Steve, Gopal, Subarna
Front Row (left to right): Prajowl, Momita, Sabitri, Punam, Pramila, Mina, Pastor Tika

Namaste Everyone!

     Sorry it has been so long since my last post.  We have been fighting flu and cold here pretty hard the last week or so.  Daniel had a temp of about 103 from Monday to Wednesday last week and both of us ended up with a pretty nasty head cold.  Both of are doing pretty good now.  Daniel is getting back to normal, both in personality and appetite. 

     We are moving along quickly in our classes.  We are just about to finish up in our Doctrine of God and Doctrine of the Word of God classes.  In fact, when we come back from holiday, we will be finishing the Sufficiency of Scripture in a couple days and the Attributes of God in a couple weeks.  Next in line is Biblical Evangelism: The Law and the Gospel and Pneumatology: The Work of the Holy Spirit. 

     For the Biblical Evangelism class I will be using Mark Dever's book, "The Gospel and Personal Evangelism" as a guide.  We are also continuing through our study in Exodus in the afternoons.  That has been both a challenging and rewarding class!  Lot's of great stuff packed away in Exodus, but it takes a lot of hard digging to get it all out!

     I have been wanting to get some pictures up of the students this semester, but the weather has been so rainy and cloudy, it has been hard to find the right time.  This last Friday was perfect, so we took off early and got these pictures.  Hope you enjoy!  The students are all off this week for holiday, and they were supposed to give me some more information to go with their pictures before they left.  But they didn't!  Anyway, I'll update the info later, so check back. 

Jaimashi!

Steve and Daniel

Amit!  (If I were ever going to change my name to something cooler (like anything could be cooler than 'Steve Wingo')
I would change it to 'Amit')  Amit is one of the few students that has been with us for both years of GBC's existence.  He is translating for me in my Doctrine of God class and is basically teaching it himself.  He knows the Word and is a great student and friend.  I really expect to see him teaching in the next couple years.



Ashok: First and Second year student, great brother and encouragement, loves the Lord and knows the Word.




Ashok and John (I don't know why John looks so serious)




This is Gopal.  He is a few years older than me and is exmilitary.  He has only been a believer less than a year.
He is from a village in Chitwan and is very eager to learn and be equipped to share the Gospel in his village.





This is our dear brother, John!  Or as many here pronounce it Joon!  John is our guest student.  He just started college, but school is out for over a month due to the Hindu holiday "Dashain" so he is sitting in on the classes.



Here is our dear sister Mamita!  Great student and even better cook!  (and good friend :))

Pramila and Punam suppressing a giggle.



Pramila!  We don't really have any bad students, but even so Pramila is one of the best and brightest!
She always seems happy and joyful which is a great encouragement on those days that I'm not feeling so happy
and joyful myself!



Punam!  Another one of our lovely female students.  We have more girls this semester than any other previous semester, I believe.  Punam is a great student and always seems to have a great attitude.  As you can tell from the photo below, her and Pramila like to smile!

Punam, Pramila, and John posin' for the camera

Sabitri!  Good student!  Does great on the exams, but very quiet!



Sabitri trying to keep a straight face for pictures






This is Mina.  Another great student but very quiet!

 

Subarna!  Fast becoming one of the better students.  Very quiet guy, but works hard and very smart!

Where would I be without Pastor Tika?  He has been a great help in working with me to teach with an interpreter.  He is also teaching one class in the mornings on Bible Survey.  Not to mention, he is always busy shepherding the local church.  Pray for Pastor Tika.  He is a hard working pastor and needs lots of prayer and encouragement.  (He  is also apparently very funny, at least in Nepali.  During devotions in the morning he will have the students cracking up, but I can't understand a word of it!)

Prajowl: This is Momita's husband and a good friend.  Like I said before, we really don't have any poor students this year and if you want to stand out, you really have to work hard, but Prajowl is one of those students that really does stand out!  For example: on his exams, he rewrites everything by hand and goes into great detail on just about every answer.  (one of my favorite things is reading my students exams and seeing how they have answered the questions and what they have learned.)