Fairly often we hear phrases such as “praise God for many stories of impact”...but to actually get those oral stories in writing is “like pulling hen’s teeth” (wherever that saying came from!). However, we received three such stories this past month and eagerly pass them on to you so that you too can rejoice in hearing evidence that God is answering your prayers for this ministry! Being “westerners” who love details, we simply have to be content with what we get!
Tanzania:
This picture of a letter written by an elementary student was forwarded to us from Beth. It was sent to her without any further details, but what is there fills our hearts with joy.
Uganda, South
Sudanese Refugee Camp:
A Scripture Union South Sudanese refugee leader shared with Beth his conversation with a fellow refugee (not necessarily a Christian) who is in charge of a certain part of one of the refugee camps.
“The lessons taught by you Scripture Union leaders during Covid lock-down while schools were closed over the past two years helped our children a lot. I recommend that they be taught again.” When I told him our plans to teach the lessons in the schools now that they are open, the gentleman still insisted that in addition to the schools they still needed to be taught at the community level too.
South Sudan:
You may remember news from our last blog that Purity was taught by South Sudanese Scripture Union refugee leaders last month at a Scripture Union conference in South Sudan close to the Ugandan border. This is a report that came to Beth from that camp.
Two 15-year-old girls who participated in the Purity lessons told us that they were in a relationship with men from the area they came from. When we asked them “Why?” they replied that “they just admire it.” (Probably meaning that it’s considered a cool or in-thing to do.) After teaching lesson 5, Purity Has No Regrets, [a story of a bright and promising Ugandan girl who got sexually involved with two men over a period of several years while still a student and ended up sickly, not finishing school, and shunned by her relatives] both girls shared their decision to break those relationships in order to avoid regret and failure to finish school.
