St. Cuthbert’s Naremburn-Cammeray is the driving force behind the India Training Mission - an expedition to train southern Indian pastors and key leaders to teach Moore College’s PTC to in the south of India. Get up close and personal to the mission as Sydneyanglicans.net posts the experiences of first-time team members…

Daniel 15/2/06
We're now half way through our first Old Testament 1 course that David has been teaching, and the small group discussions are starting to come together. The small groups were quite difficult at first; it is hard (harder than I thought) to hold a discussion when you speak English and everyone else speaks Tamil. Even the English speakers were having trouble with my accent.
But I think we are learning to understand one another now, and so learning together is becoming easier. The men I am leading are very keen students of the Bible. Mostly they are pastors and they have an obvious passion for God's word.
Still there are lots of challenges; the men at times will concentrate on getting all the details straight rather than understanding the main sweep of the Old Testament. And for myself, I need to keep working to listen and understand even when different languages and accents seem to get in the way.
I love being in India, it is a beautiful country, and filled with some of the nicest people I have met. Our accommodation is wonderful and the food is superb. I definitely won't be losing weight on this trip