Teaching Preaching
Once again this winer I took my turn in serving as teacher for the Burmese Bible School, Syracuse location. My assignment was a new one—to teach a course in expository preaching. I accepted since preaching is a favorite discipline of mine and I felt well prepared both by my years of formal training and by my own practice of study and preaching. I also felt that I might be able to build on the foundation I had made last year when teaching Introduction to Homiletics. There is a huge amount of preparation and the course delivery is concentrated—three weekends, Friday evening and all day Saturday. So it is draining but also exhilarating. For most of the sessions I prepared PowerPoint outlines and handed out printed notes. This helps the interpreter to follow me too. In addition, in this course Pastor Than and myself each preached exa
mple sermons for the class. I also shared many example sermon outlines.
Pastor Than Aung Assisted
It was my privilege once again to have Pastor Than Aung as my interpreter. Since he is a Princeton grad himself, he is a very capable assistant as well as interpreter. This is what is needed as much of the grading responsibility falls to him due to the need for him to read the students’ homework and test answers in Burmese. I very much enjoy teaching prospective pastors and teachers and am energized by it. I was also extremely gratified by the beautiful encouraging words I received from the students at the close of the last session.
The pictures are my class this year.