First classes

Tuesday, September 1, saw the first evening class at the new BEC. This is a drop-in, no registration class, run as most Christadelphian Bible classes are. The kick-off subject is 1 Corinthians, with Ray Pratt leading. There weren't any guests, not terrifically surprising since we have not yet marketed it very much. (But two people who were in the following day expressed interest, so we may start getting visitors.)

Wednesday, September 2, marked the first scheduled class. We've been focusing on the scheduled classes for our advertising the past 2+ weeks. The Wed class is "How to Study the Bible". (The instructor, Paul Zilmer, tips his hat to Bro David White, whose class of the same name in South Africa was the model for this one.) The Thu class, which begins tonight, will be "God's Promises", taught by Norman Fadelle.





The class seemed to be a great success! Of the 14 people who had registered, 10 attended, plus we had 2 who hadn't pre-registered, for a total of 12 students. The students were very engaged and readily participated. We pray that they will all be back next week!

Significantly, seven of the 12 students are African-American, and one is Asian. In the North American Christadelphian world it has proven very difficult to make connections in either of these communities (with a few notable exceptions). We pray that all such artificial barriers remain far away, as they clearly were last night.