Showing posts with label Yangon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yangon. Show all posts

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Myanmar Presentation


I gave a talk today on my short-term mission experience in Myanmar. In January/February of this year I taught at the Karen Baptist Theological Seminary in Yangon. One of the main reasons for wanting to share these pictures and narrative was because of my Karen brothers and sister here at CBC. Four years ago, two hundred or so Karen refugees arrived in Hartford from the camps in Thailand.

Pastor John Endler opened the program with a prayer for peace. The Karen have become an integral part of our church and have supported my short-term missions in many ways. I left my card with one of the attendees hoping that she will follow my odyssey. At the end of the presentation we prayed for peace and I announced the halting of my short-term missions for this year to attend to my odyssey.

Friday, July 6, 2012

KBTS website

Just found this website for the Karen Baptist Theological Seminary where I taught this last January and February.

blognote: great music on the site

Saturday, February 18, 2012

KBTS...Yangon, Myanmar

This is the Karen Baptist Theological Seminary where I recently taught for three weeks.


KBTS views...




campus



new construction...
more pictures of the Karen Baptist Theological Seminary in Yangon, Myanmar...

Friday, February 17, 2012

KBTS Students


Special English students

MDiv1 Students




Bible exercises






Business English student

Thursday, February 16, 2012

chapel in the morning...




Every morning before class there were chapel services. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, the services were in English and on Thursday and Friday in Karen.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Golden Guest Inn


front entrance

the walkway to my room in the annex

We stayed here at the Golden Guest Inn closer to downtown Yangon while teaching at the Karen Baptist Theological Seminary.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

my classroom...

lesson of the day...

drinking water for the students...

Most of my classes were taught in Room #403...

Monday, February 13, 2012

getting to class in the morning...going home later on...

seminary van

Moo Lah


Moo Lah picked us up each morning from the guest house in town and delivered us to KBTS to teach. He usually took us back to the guest house but sometimes if we taught late other faculty members did the 'honors'.
backseat driver...

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Myanmar Baptist Convention

Presenting greetings from
Central Baptist Church in Hartford, CT
to Rev Dr Zah Win
Visited here and met Rev Dr Zah Win, the newly elected President of the Myanmar Baptist Convention. He was a charming host and we discussed the coming Judson Celebration and the Karen population in Hartford.

Old MBC Building

New Headquarters

Judson Church






Our last Sunday in Yangon, the day of our departure, we worshipped at the Judson Church on the grounds of Yangon University [formerly Judson University]. Hope to visit here again next year and the following year during the Celebration.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

saying goodbye...

sending Greetings to CBC

Ed Hobart, my co-teacher

a gift from Special English Class


chatting with an MDiv1 student...

awarding the CBC Bible to an MDiv1 student

Special English Class group photo
MDiv1 group photo

Food!

Meals at the Seminary Guest House were provided and delicious...

Lunch...

Coffee, tea, water and snacks in my classroom...

Dinner before a night class...