Philippines (MNN) ― Dave Tippit returned recently from the final 2007 Eternal Concepts discipleship training school.
This one was held at Central Philippines University, which has over 11,000 students and is located on the island of Iloilo.
Although the team typically limits the seminars to 50 students in order for discipleship to occur, they experimented with hosting 100 students for this particular seminar due to the extreme demand that they encountered.
Tippit said of the experience, "In the student discipleship program, we covered topics at a more basic level than previous training schools, yet there was an authenticity to this particular school that was unprecedented. Many of the students were just at beginning levels in their pursuit of God. Many had authentic questions and hurts, but in the midst of those questions and hurts, God's presence worked mightily."
Lessons were taught on humility, faith, prayer, evangelism, and an in-depth study of the Bible. During the last several days of the school, Tippit held a seminar with over 40 of the Christian professors at the university.
These professors were excited about the program and teachings that Tippit taught and facilitated, and there have been numerous reports since then of exciting things that God has done in the lives of the professors through these few days of spiritual training.
Tippit will head to Angola at the beginning of 2008 to hold another discipleship training school. Pray that the students would be confident in God's calling.
