Even though we've been offline lately, many of you have been keeping up with us and know about our new language learning venture. About one month ago we began a basic curriculum in preparation for my studies in Israel this summer. (Rachel's doing the pre-course studies with me :-) If you have time you can watch this video and see how we're learning biblical Hebrew.
It's a basic audio-lingual method that helps you connect the meaning straight to the target language without translation. This helps get the language inside the learner instead of learning about the language as some sort of external entity.
Today I just sent in my registration for 6 weeks of study in Israel where this curriculum will be followed up by 8 hour days of immersion in Biblical Hebrew. We'll target the books of Genesis and Jonah during those six weeks of class time, personal study, field trips, and other interaction with speakers of modern Hebrew in the community. Lord willing this will be followed up by two years of teach Hebrew here at Bethlehem, a master's thesis, and beyond that as the Lord would see fit to use us... (feel free to contact us if you want more details :-)
Meanwhile, we're making plans for Rachel and Benaiah to be in Michigan over the summer with Rachel's family. She'll be teaching swim lessons and enjoying summer-time in the country. (It can get pretty hot here in Minneapolis.) So, please pray for us as we make this venture out of our comfort zones as we follow God step by step. Pray for focus and endurance as we face this summer. Pray for financial provision as we have some funds saved but not the full amount and will need to raise some support. Pray for us to hear his voice more clearly over the summer as we seek his direction for our time beyond seminary.
And as for Benaiah, he just keeps on smiling and swimming. Kick, buddy, kick!
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