We spent the day attending Randy's class on The Doctrine of the Church. The class consists of students in the Bachelor of Theology program. About half of them are pastors or church workers. One man is a former policeman who has planted a church in Kandy with several daughter churches. One young lady is 19 years old and her goal is to eventually obtain her PhD and teach at a Bible College. One gal was raised in a Buddhist family. Her father was in an accident and seriously injured. A pastor came to visit and shared about Christ. He eventually believed in Jesus and so did his wife and children.
It has been great to become acquainted with the students as Randy has encouraged the students to eat with us and be available to pray for them. We enjoyed visiting with them today at lunch. I shared pictures of our family with the girls and one of them wants to stay in touch and would also like me to find a young woman that she can pen-pal with in the United States.
We skipped Class this afternoon and took a Tuk Tuk to Kandy (the school is actually in the neighboring town of Peradeniya) to see the Temple of the Tooth. This is a very sacred Buddhist site that houses the tooth of the Buddha. The cities here are dirty and chaotic and not at all what we are used to, but we are having fun experiencing it all. It is hard to know what is safe or good to eat or even what will be to hot and spicy for us! The administrator of the college, Selvarajah, is taking very good care of us.
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