Christian Teacher Training Course a Great Success

From July 23rd through August 5th Mike Riddle traveled to Arizona to speak in multiple churches as well as teach a one day Christian Teacher Training course held at Scottsdale Bible church. 58 students from the Phoenix area, Tucson , Prescott , Yuma and Havasu City attended the full-day course. This is a new training course from AIG that was developed over the past two years by Mike here in Arizona , and is already in high demand around the country and Canada . The course prepares students to discuss and present, from a biblical worldview, the biblical and scientific evidences about creation/evolution. In addition, the course equips students in all three areas of apologetics.

As Christians we need to recognize there are three areas of apologetics: (1) Learning how to answer questions; (2) Knowing how to ask the right questions. This is where the Christian can go on the offense and break down strongholds held by the nonbeliever; and (3) Knowing how to take the discussion to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is the real power of any discussion.

The course covers four main topics:

1. The relevance of creation to Christian doctrine and biblical authority
2. Apologetics, logic and critical thinking skills
3. Science and origins
4. Educating for success – making Christian education the best education

The cost of the course next year will be $39 per student. However, included in the cost is a student manual complete with notes for each of the PowerPoint slides, a DVD with the course PowerPoint slides and lunch. The course is also ACSI approved, which means teachers can receive one continuing education unit.

“Response to this course was so positive and enthusiastic that we are already tentatively scheduling it for October of next year.” Joseph Kezele, President, Arizona Origins Science Association (AzOSA).

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¡Creation Evangelism in Mexico!

July 12-19 Black Mountain Baptist Church in Cave Creek, Arizona conducted an evangelistic mission in conjunction with Bethel Baptist Church in Escuinapa, Sinaloa, Mexico. The youth group participated in street evangelism in the mornings and sports evangelism in the afternoons. In the evenings creation evangelism presentations were given in Spanish by Joseph Kezele, M.D., President of the Arizona Origin Science Association (Dr. Kezele also teaches each year in Russia, giving his PowerPoint presentations in Russian).

At the church, the 7 Cs, Why Won’t They Listen?, and AzOSA Scripture Series Genesis Chapter 1 were presented. On three other evenings, Are Dinosaurs More Recent Than you Think?, Fossils and the Flood and Where Did the Thousands of Languages Come From? were presented in a public setting, with 100 or more people attending each evening.

The Lord used these activities to bring 101 people to Him in first time commitments to Christ as their Savior and Creator.

AIG supported this effort in two ways. The first was the availability of some PowerPoint slides on AIG’s Spanish language web site. The second was the donation by AIG of a set of all of the available Spanish language creation evangelism books and the set of six Spanish language creation DVDs to the church library. Pictured here is Pastor Melquiades Llanes of Bethel Baptist Church and Joseph Kezele with the donated materials. Thank you AIG for teaming with the Arizona Origin Science Association and Black Mountain Baptist Church to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the creation message to the people of Escuinapa.

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