I’m looking for students!

For the past few years, I’ve been making my living teaching Spanish and English, online, but also in person at a company with lots of Hispanic workers about thirty minutes from my home. I also continue to learn more Spanish every day by reading the Bible in Spanish and watching lots of Spanish podcasts. I study Russian and interact with Russians online every week. I have language apps on my phone and can converse in Russian, Spanish, or English with these AI apps. It’s quite an interesting world!
Today I was reading John 21, and I checked the Greek on my Bible software. I do that a lot. I also checked the Hebrew on an OT passage. I took Hebrew and Greek in seminary.
My Russian teacher’s son is interested in Hebrew, so she asked if I’d teach him. That made me get out my Hebrew textbooks and start brushing up. I’m just a bare beginner in Hebrew myself, but she asked me for this favor, and said she knew I was further ahead than her son.
Anyway, I often read my Russian Bible, which is lying beside my laptop on my desk. I find that reading familiar passages in another language is a very helpful language-learning tool. Which brings me to what I’d like to share with my FB friends. Are any of you interested in learning Spanish? I’ve been teaching it for some years. But I want to teach it to some Christians by using the Bible. I believe it’s a great way to learn both Spanish and God’s Word. I also want to teach English to Spanish-speaking Christians who want to learn it by using the Bible.
If this interests you or you know someone it might interest, please let me know. I have limited time, but would like to add classes of this sort to my schedule. If there are enough interested people, I’ll start a class.

Update: 05/15/24

Hi folks. I just noticed it had been a long time since I wrote one of these updates (though of course, not so long since I’ve posted a video.) But I thought I’d put out another, just to let you know what we’re up to! 

Update 5-15-24

Nothing “Corny” About Family Fun!

Five-year-old Isaias Sanchez was extraordinarily delighted when his grandmother “buried” him in a huge pile of loose corn. The corn was just one of the attractions Isaias and his kindergarten classmates experienced on a field trip to Paradise Pumpkin Patch near Eufaula, Alabama. The children also enjoyed hay rides and a wild “bull ride” behind a speeding John Deere tractor. They got to see wild animals from around the world: a camel, a Cape Buffalo, zebras, a kangaroo, an ostrich, and a herd of African cattle with huge horns. Safer animals were in the petting zoo, and there was a traditional pumpkin patch and corn maze, hay bale climb, and all the jumping balloons and inflatable slides the kids could handle. Paradise Pumpkin Patch operates primarily during the Fall of each year. Located on beautiful Alabama farm land, it provides great wholesome fun for all ages, proving there’s nothing “corny” about family fun.

You can learn more at the Paradise Pumpkin Patch website http://paradisepumpkinpatch.com/

Upcoming course on the Bible

Hi folks, 

Just to inform you, I’m in my final semester, Lord willing, of the M.Div. program. I have to do an internship, meant to give ministry experience to those who have been studying. Of course, I have over 35 years of ministry experience, but I still have to do this! To fulfill this requirement, I have decided to write a course to help unchurched people understand and get oriented to the Bible. In this update, I want to tell you about what I’m planning to do. Continue reading “Upcoming course on the Bible”

Update – Spring into Summer

Spring Into Summer

Hello friends, 

My Spring semester has just ended, so as I get a one-week break before the Summer session starts, I think it’s time for another update. As I am nearing completion of my M.Div degree program, I am taking more courses at a time, so the work load has been pretty heavy at times. According to the online site that charts my progress, I am now 86% of the way through, and have kept an all A grade average, with the exception of one B+. Oh well, I never did preach Christian perfectionism!  Continue reading “Update – Spring into Summer”