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…

Judy 16/12/2006
Impressions of India" .
Each morning, in Salem, I wake to the sound of children's laughter outside our room. It is a joy to wake early and walk around the Sharon complex that comprises a school, orphanage, hospital conference centre and dairy! The many children who live in the orphanage are busy with their chores, sweeping and cleaning and getting ready for an early start at school. My early morning reading time is spent on the verandah overlooking the picturesque gardens near the main house and visitors’ accommodation. It's not uncommon to see monkeys in the trees, scrambling along the branches.
Everyone we meet in our day is unfailingly cheerful and helpful. We could not be better cared for, nor made to feel more welcome. As we observe the faith of these dear people and their love for the Lord and joy in service our hearts are enormously encouraged.
Our students doing the PTC course are super keen to learn and are happy to study and chat long after our teaching sessions are over. Some students have even traveled up to 58 hours on a train to attend the course. Nothing is too much trouble in their zeal to know and serve God more faithfully.
It is a great privilege to get to know them (with the help of our wonderful interpreters) and to hear their different stories of how they came to faith in Christ and of the ministries they are now involved in as His kingdom grows in India.
David 17/2/2006
Today we will finish our first week of training. Let me tell you it has been quite hectic since we arrived and all the team have been magnificent in their approach not only to the teaching but also in all the other things needed to make sure the program worked.
We have had 40 participants in the Old Testament 1 course and 33 doing the New Testament 1 course. Most are Tamil speakers and so we are working with translators all of whom are doing an excellent job so far as we can tell. There is, however, one man,  from the Punjab who speaks only Punjabi and English. I want to tell you about him and his friend.
They came into the lecture room on Wednesday morning as we were conducting the daily test for the first day's program. He and his friend, who also speaks English said they had just arrived from the Punjab, 3000 kilometres away and wanted to join the Old Testament 1 Course I was teaching, but they also asked if they could do the first daily test some time later after they had read the course material.
I suggested that we sit down immediately and so I could give them as detailed a summary of what we had covered on the Tuesday while the others finished their test. In that time we covered about half of the first two units. During the day we spoke again briefly and did a little more.
At the end of the day they both did the first day test AFTER sitting through three full sessions for that day. I marked Sandhu's paper, which was in English and he passed with flying colours. His friend Paul wrote in Tamil and I have not yet caught up with his result.

Yesterday, I asked these two lovely brothers how they got to Salem. They simply said "by train, it took fifty eight hours"!!!
I was staggered and have been in tears several times since as I think about the sacrifice these men have made to come and share in the courses we are running. For me it speaks volumes about the reputation of the Moore College material we are teaching that people would travel so far and for so long to be with us.
Please pray for every member of our team that we would be faithful teachers of God's word as we work through the course material and that we would teach it in such a way that it is not only helpful for those who hear it directly, but that they might in turn be able to teach others and so expand the ministry.
Postscript" 10:15pm and we have just practiced our skit for tomorrow's youth conference: Sandhu is catching the train back to Punjab tonight -116 hours of travel for about twenty hours of teaching!!!!