LT consultation 'stuck with me', says Ron Frost

Ron Frost with Barnabas came through our Nampa office last year to discuss with us opportunities that he has with a new Bible school being started in Rwanda. We discussed many things, including that we are concerned about the quality of teaching and that we can help institutions and ministries grow in their ability to develop curriculums that better fit their goals for their courses and programs.

Anyway, we did not hear much from him after that, though he did say that he was pleasantly surprised when we interacted with him about these educational things rather than just discuss our digital resources and technical solutions that were looking for problems.

I spoke with him yesterday and in that conversation he spoke quite animatedly that "the orientation in Nampa we really useful and that it had really stuck" with him. Later in the conversation he said, "I have stumbled into some synergy that is valuable," referring to the LT team. He was especially encouraged by the orality dimension of LT and is intrigued about future possibilities with that for his own ministry.

While discussing orality, I encouraged him to consider the challenge that it has been for orality workshop participants to get the question asking part of the method. He immediately related to that and that it is difficult for most pastors in these other cultures not to preach. Because Ron is exceptionally good at asking questions (when I first became a Christian he led our college career ministry with a question-asking rap session as a key element of the ministry), I asked him to consider writing an article that could be a contribution to the orality network. He was intrigued by this idea and I hope to follow up on this with him.

From Ron's blog: Ron is now a pastoral care consultant with Barnabas International.  In this role he provides care, coaching, encouragement, and educational services to those in overseas cross-cultural ministries.  

Nicholas