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Doctor Sawyer's Work Around the World
One of my former students from my years teaching at Simpson College had gone on to seminary and become a missionary in Guam. His goal was to start a seminary under the auspices of Pacific Islands University– but he had no one to teach the Theology and Church history classes.…
In 2014 I received an invitation to go to Ghana and teach at a fairly new Bible College that was located in the capital city of Accra. I traveled to Ghana where for 2 successive years I taught for two weeks. The students were enthusiastic and asked many questions– a…
In 2011 I was invited to go to Amman, Jordan to teach at Jordan Evangelical Seminary. Jordan is of course a Muslim country. Christianity in Jordan has its roots in the first century. But today the Christian population is only about 3%. A majority of the Christian population are Eastern…
Perhaps the most unexpected place for me to teach has been Kiev, Ukraine. As you are probably aware Ukraine was for decades a part of the Soviet Union. With the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine became a separate country. The State-enforced atheism is gone and there is freedom of worship. The…
My first experience teaching abroad outside a US Territory came in 2006. During the fall of 2005 two pastors from Stara Zagora Bulgaria (about 150 miles East of Sofia) visited our church in San Ramon CA where they shared about their ministry at a Bible college that they had founded there.…
My first experience teaching outside of the US came in 1999. Kay & I were doing some ministry in conjunction with Christian Counseling International. One of the conferences that CCI hosted featured a pastor from San Juan Puerto Rico. He had started a Bible College at his church in San Juan and…