¡CONFIDENT CONVERSATIONS!
A SPANISH CLASS FOR ANYONE
Our 2021 Spring Class starts on Monday, March 22nd! This year’s Spring Class is meant to equip us to live better together with our Spanish-speaking church members, friends, and neighbors. Whether you don’t know any Spanish but are eager to press into the lives of Spanish-speaking friends and neighbors, or you took 3 years in high school but are too shy to ever use it day to day, this is a class for you. Even if you’re a fluent Spanish speaker, we’d welcome you to join and be an encouragement to those seeking to learn. All levels of Spanish-learners are welcome to join and grow in both the knowledge and confidence that are needed to have real and regular Spanish conversations.
The format will be 6 class sessions, held every other week (2nd and 4th Mondays of each month) at 7:00pm in-person, in the Schlieder backyard. These class sessions will be a hybrid of a lecture-based learning approach, interactive activities and language learning exercises, and real conversations that pair Spanish-learning and Spanish-speaking church members together.
WHY A SPANISH CLASS? WHY NOT SOMETHING “MORE THEOLOGICAL?”
Because language is theological. The Bible tells us that at Babel (Genesis 11), a common language became an opportunity for sin. In response, God divided up the languages of men. Language wrongly unified, so it was rightly divided. Due to the effects of sin, language separates men and women from one another. Yet, at Pentecost (Acts 2), language was redeemed as the message of the gospel was spoken to all gathered in Jerusalem in their own familiar language. The Spirit of God caused the preaching of the gospel to be heard in the native languages of divided peoples so that they’d all become united in Christ. Apart from Christ, common language exalted self and sin, and divided languages divided us. In Christ, every step we take into the uncomfortable territory of a new or unfamiliar language is a truly unifying, Babel-reversing, Savior-exalting step.
CHILDCARE WON’T BE PROVIDED, BUT KIDS 10 AND UP ARE WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CLASS.
Attendance will be capped at 12 participants. Men, women, and older kids, English and Spanish speakers alike may join. This class is a chance for us to learn a language, but more than that, it is a chance for us to love our city, our church, and our neighbors as we become equipped to more confidently live life together with them through the words we share. It’s our prayer that you’d be filled with both the knowledge and the confidence you need to take a step toward real conversations and real life together with our Spanish-speaking church members and neighbors.
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In preparation for the class, there will be no book assigned to read. Everything will be covered in the sessions and the only materials you’ll need will be something to write with, a notebook, and the willingness to press into the unfamiliar!
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