Tanzania Tidbits

Recent “Whats App” messages from Tanzania via Beth B., the Scripture Union staff leading the VOICE Africa team, have made us smile from ear to ear. All of these testimonies come from places where English is understood enough by the children/youth to use the Ugandan curriculum. Several modules are being translated into Swahili but are not yet ready for use. Don’t try to understand every detail (we don’t either), but rejoice in what God is doing.

·         Apparently coming from a trained VEC teacher:
“I already have an elementary school with about 500 students in a town Morogoro (a town of 300,000+ in the eastern part of Tanzania) that wants to have the Values Education Class.”

·         Coming from a high school student six months after he/she attended a Scripture Union camp where the Biblical Values were taught:
“It helped the following ways:

1. Through the seminar at the camp we were taught about purity…so it helped to know more about purity and why should I stay pure and so it helped to overcome lots of challenges.

2. It gave me more knowledge and awareness to music…the ungodly music.

3. At the camp we were taught about the values that helped me a lot to live well with people around me, friends at school and home, teachers, elders and parent. A so a lot things I have come to see.”

·         Apparently coming from the values teacher who taught the above high school student:
“We taught them Lesson 1 of each of the six values. This training is excellent. Today I am meeting the School Director for Values Education Class Teaching at her school in 2019. God is good!”

·         Apparently coming from a trained Values Education Class teacher:
“I'm teaching VEC in Moshi (a town of 200,000+ in northern Tanzania, near the Kenyan border). The young class I am teaching for three weeks, 6 days a week, three hours every morning. The group are performing very well.”

·         And a few pictures that were also sent to us:

Wow…Amazing Progress!

Two close-to-midnight phone calls (one from Kenya and one from Ethiopia) from our colleague and friend, Beth, and then multiple texts have brought astonishing and exciting news. Scripture Union Ethiopia has finished translating into Amharic not one but two modules of curriculum, Truth and Honesty,  on two age levels—Upper Primary and Secondary! But that’s not all…at least the Secondary level for both modules are already published and ready to be used, complete with visuals and Activity Sheets! And not just a few copies…a full 1,000 copies of each! 

Sooo, now we know that is why Beth is in Ethiopia right now and 11 senior staff representing every region of that nation have gathered together…they want to be trained how to use this newly published curriculum to reach more children and youth with the Gospel and disciple them to walk as Jesus did. Praise God with us and pray that God will mightily bless the work of their hands and bring in a large harvest in Ethiopia for His glory.