After the workshop, the Lovekins, Gideon, Patrick and I returned to Addis Ababa. We had planned to check all 90 primer lessons again to be sure that none had too many new words or any characters that hadn’t been taught. Here Allen and Joan are looking at the draft pages. Due to illness, we were not able to complete the checking then.

After returning to the USA, we found that some of the later lessons did have too many new words and revision would be necessary. So when I made my next visit to Ethiopia, I arranged to spend a week at the church office in order to work with Duba, Fikadu and the church leaders on primer revision. Here Duba, Fikadu and Degu discuss a change in one of the lessons.

Then Duba and Fikadu worked with me in Addis Ababa for 2 weeks as I tried to be sure I had all the revisions and pictures necessary for the primers.

Ed Owen, a member of Wycliffe’s Seed Company, developed software to give us a better print-out in Ethiopic script, and I began pasting the primer lessons into the computer program "Publisher". The next two pictures are sample pages from a primer.

The two picture words for this lesson are 'wali' (a kind of sickle) and 'zhabna' (clay coffee pot). The Scripture reference is John 1:9-13. For the last five minutes of each lesson, the tutor reads the Scripture reference and gives a brief testimony or engages the student in discussion of spiritual things.

Primer 3: The third primer has 25 Bible lessons, covering the main events from Creation to the return of Christ. These 2 pages have the account of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch. You can read about it in Acts 8:26-40.

Twenty-five Aari church leaders attended the Tutor Training Workshop August 1-6, 2004. The first couple of days they seemed only mildly interested, but then they began to catch the vision for using the Aari primers as tools for evangelism.

Gideon Kiongo and Patrick Malasi came from Nairobi, Kenya, to lead the tutor trainings. It looks like Gideon is really concentrating on their conversation over the midday meal of injera and wat. (Patrick got a special dispensation of white bread, since the injera didn't always agree with him.)

The participants broke into small groups to practice teaching the primer lessons. We copied a lesson onto a large piece of newsprint and hung it up so that everyone could see the demonstration of how to teach.