Forgiveness Unites a Family

In the midst of back-to-back Values Training which sprang up this month, a previously scheduled Obedience Lower Primary Test Teaching Orientation at Scripture Union had been on our calendar.  Although feeling fatigue, Ruth and I made our way, Sept.16, through morning traffic to the Scripture Union Headquarters on the other side of the city and dusted off tables and chairs, organized the test teaching curriculum, and set up for tea break.  Our VOICE Staff Chris, joined us and we eventually welcomed 12 Test Teachers.  Some had traveled all night by bus, coming as the representative from one of the Scripture Union Regional offices, to make the meeting.   

We were encouraged as we walked our volunteer Test Teachers through the lessons on Obedience.  Then as we were coming to final details of the orientation, testimonies started as one after another shared how God had worked and used past Curriculum in their personal lives.  A Head Teacher (Principal) from the Eastern Region shared how she felt so convicted as she was preparing to test teach the Module Forgiveness.  “How can I teach this to others when I refuse to forgive my own wayward daughter?”  At that point the Head Teacher did not even know where she was.  As she leafed through the pages of the Teacher’s Manual she made a decision – by God’s grace, she would retract her prayer for God to take her daughter in death and instead would obey God by forgiving and releasing the burden of her daughter to the Lord.  A heavy weight was lifted and she now could enter the classroom with a clear conscience. Three days later, her daughter called, “Mommy, can I come home…..I want to go back to school.”  Arrangements were made and her daughter returned to school. Now, several months later, she continues with her studies and serves as a volunteer teaching children to follow God’s way!  Praise God for His amazing ways to touch and transform lives.

The 2nd testimony--Reconciliation with his mother

Another test teacher shared how that same module had been used of God to “force” him to seek reconciliation with his mother…who couldn’t stop hugging and kissing him once he returned to make things right!

As you know, this is the module that is now being published. What an encouragement to hear these spontaneous and surprise testimonies of how God used it in the teachers’ lives even before it was taught to the students.