When this young man first came to our Bible school nearly two years ago, he had already heard the gospel, but not in a manner that gave him a full and clear understanding of its message.
Just as in the previous video, Course One, our chronological Bible curriculum from creation to Christ, was the tool God used to open this young man’s spiritual eyes and bring him into the family of God.
After nearly two years of biblical instruction and discipleship, this young man has seen firsthand the impact the Bible school has had on his life, and he has begun to recognize its potential impact throughout Vanuatu.
He now carries a burden to return to his island and his own language group to share this glorious gospel with people who have no established church and no Bible translation in their own language.
In the video, he compares the Bible school to a large, fruit-bearing tree.
The tree produces fruit that nourishes those who come to it, including students from distant villages and islands. But within that fruit are seeds. As these students return to their own communities carrying the truth of Scripture, those seeds are planted. By God’s grace, new trees can take root, grow, mature, and eventually produce fruit of their own.
One tree bears fruit. That fruit carries seeds. Those seeds take root, and new trees begin to grow.
This is our prayer for the Bible school: that God would use it to reach and equip people from across Vanuatu, a country with more than 100 indigenous languages, and prepare them to carry the gospel back to their own villages and language groups.
We desire to see a clear and faithful gospel proclaimed, believers grounded in Scripture, indigenous leaders developed, and biblical churches established in communities where none currently exist.
And as those churches mature, our prayer is that they too will produce fruit, develop leaders, and eventually send their own laborers into other communities.
Please pray that God continues to use this Bible school to prepare laborers, strengthen His churches, and advance the gospel among the many language groups of Vanuatu.
The vision is not simply for one tree to bear more fruit, but for that fruit to carry seeds from which an entire generation of new, fruit-bearing trees may grow.
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Your feet to the Tiale people and the country of Vanuatu. Seth, Nicole & Selah Stokes.
