Saturday, September 19, 2009

We need your help

We recently posted a prayer request, asking for prayers for a laptop for Justin. Now that you have had a chance to pray, we ask that you would please consider whether or not God would want to use you to help towards this. If you have a laptop you would be willing to donate, or if you would be willing to donate money so that he can get one, that would be an incredible blessing to us! We are asking for donations in any amount towards Justin's laptop fund. Please see the "how you can help" column to the left of our blog to see how you can donate towards this and please specify if it is for his laptop fund. Thanks you so much. We love you and appreciate you!!! Fell free to contact us with any questions or comments that you may have about this.

with love,

Justin & Annie

Sunday, September 13, 2009

J & A 's Fall Quarter Teaching Schedule


You can be praying for us as we prepare for our lectures this coming quarter:

Justin is teaching:

2nd Thessalonians on Nov 4
1 Timothy on December 11


Annie is teaching:
1 Corinthians on Nov 16 - 20
2 Timothy on December 14

Prayer Request:

Justin needs a new laptop. For each person on SBS staff here in Montana, to have a functioning personal laptop, is a MUST in order for us to do what we do here. Please pray that God will provide this for Justin. He is borrowing one now (God story!!!) but has to give it back in October. So, please pray that God provides one, or the money for one by then. Thanks for you're prayers!!! We appreciate you!!!!

Student Testimonials


"SBS has been SO significant in my life! It has taught me that the Bible was not written to us, but for us. It has changed the way I think about the Bible and given me better understanding through historical background. I plan on going into youth ministry after SBS, so it is a solid beginning for me to understand passages in the Bible for what it says as opposed to how others interpret it."
- Hannah Derosier, Colorado Springs, CO


"SBS has changed my life. It has allowed me to actually take the time to sit down and read God's word, and read it in a way where I can understand what the author was saying, and I can apply it to my life, because I can see the heart of Paul and John and all the authors of this book, and it just makes me want to have a walk with God that was like theirs. SBS has challenged me to strive more and more for a deeper relationship with God and never be satisfied. It has grown my passion for Jesus in a way that I never thought possible, and it has challenged me to look at all the areas where I have become too comfortable, just deal with them andand focus on Christ and what He has done for me in a whole new way. SBS has been a life changing experience that is one of the most difficult things I've ever done, but also the best decision I've made so far. I have learned more than I ever thought possible, and I know that this is only the beginning. I have a passion for God's word and I want to tell the world. I want to be a nation changer, and I know that with the tools I've been given in this course, I can. This has been a stepping stone for me that will help me with my calling in life. After SBS I plan to teach God's word to as many people as possible. I only hope that I can be an example like the staff here have been to me. I want people to look at me and see Jesus in me and want that with all their hearts. GO GOD!!!" -Shara Green Alberta, Canada.
"SBS has challenged me in ways I have never imagined. It has Biblically grounded my faith, and stretched me spiritually as well as academically. Through SBS, God has completely change my life. During the book of Exodus, God gave me a calling to serve him in full time, frontier missions. SBS has prepared me to live out my faith no matter what challenges I face on the mission filed, to take the Gospel to unreached people, and helped me to fall more in love with Jesus."
-Hanna Blackford
St. Cloud, Florida

"SBS in short without filling out 15 pages or more has shown such an eye opening way of how to study the Bible. With new ways of looking having a biblical view on everything now. Its hard for me not to say something about the Bible while I am in simple conversation now. Shows me how shallow I was at reading the Word of God before till now. Now I have much more of a grasp of how God sees people, how he sees me, His heart of love is what I have to have toward everyone. Its changed the future of evening being excited about teaching instead of running away from that challenge. But I now see so much more with my eyes opened to God's view of us. It has fully impacted the foundation in my life how I see people, ideas, cultures, everything is affected now by what God has shown me. My life is completely ruined from reading God's word, ruined in an awesome way where I can't go back to a place of complacency. Spiritually I have an foundation that from today till I die will be the place where I can look back remember God's word andand His sweet words to us." - Josh Huffman Montana "For me, SBS has been an experience where God has proven me wrong about what I can do. Whenever someone would tell me about this school, tell me that I should go or at least think about it, I automatically said no. I refused to give it a second thought because in my mind I wasn't smart enough to study the Bible! But what a lie that was -- because once God changed my heart and brought me here, it has been nothing but blessings. Yes, it's still a trial every now and then, but God has constantly been proving me wrong about myself -- in good ways, showing me things I never really knew about myself, and the fact that anyone can study the Bible, you don't have to be a genius! But on an even grandeur scale, it's the fact that he is the one that is giving me the power and grace to do it. He's opening my eyes to the truths in his Word, showing me things that have affected me in mighty ways, and showing me that I can affect others lives by teaching them the tools that I've learned. I never wanted to be a teacher either, but through this school God has begun to stir up a passion inside me that will not be quenched unless I teach others God's word. It's been an amazing experience." -- tori, california

"The Bible has opened my eyes to the reality of the living vibrant grace, power and love of God.
The Bible has shown me more of the reality of what Jesus did on the cross and the fact that eternity is on its way.
I want to start a school for the impoverished and poor kids of India. Studying the Bible has ripped open blinds, given me a passion to go out with the love of God. The school for the kids will be founded on the word of God."
-Anmol, India

"Karen and I have been in YWAM for over 10 years now, most of that in Russia We really realized our knowledge of the bible was extremely limited and it impacted the type of teaching we could to on the mission field. Because of the SBS program, its given us the tools to not only study the bibie in debth, but also teach it with confidence. This is important for our future work in missions in Asia where God is calling us full-time, where the needs are great and the workers are so few. SBS is definitly a tool we can and will use for the rest of our life!"
-Ed Jensen, USA