Progress

These are good trends -- five of the nine students in the spiritual formation class this semester have very recently become Christians. And none of the five were even raised in a "Christian environment." In other words, everything is new -- vocabulary, ideas, the Bible...

I love it! Those who know that they know nothing are often the most open to instruction.

Three of the nine students are in Yap, FSM. They do their class assignments on computers housed in the building pictured above. The building was destroyed by Typhoon Sudai in 2004. But a team from Gateway Bible Church in Santa Cruz, California spearheaded the rebuilding effort -- an effort that took several years (as resources and workers were available). It reopened in the spring of 2010.

Charity Sam, a PIU grad, and one of our former students on the Guam campus, is coordinating the Yap center. (And I might add, is doing an outstanding job.) Her husband, Jonathan Sam, also a PIU grad, and at one time the leader of a discipleship group in which I was involved as adviser, teaches high school at Yap High School.