 |
| Beth and me with a Filipino friend who helped prepare a "merienda"/refreshments for some of my Filipino contacts. |
For 10 busy days in mid-March, VOICE Africa took front center stage among our friends in the Sussex/Saint John/Moncton area, NB. Beth Baleke, the VOICE Africa coordinator for East Africa, stayed with me and together we made several visits to individuals and small groups. Five New Brunswick churches also gladly gave Beth an opportunity to share a first-hand up-to-date report, complete with recent pictures, on the continued expansion in Uganda, including the South Sudanese Refugee camps, plus Tanzania and Ethiopia. In each of those nations, there is an urgent need for the teaching of godly values to children and youth. And...praise God, opportunities to do just that are also abundant...but the laborers are few. Please pray with Beth and the VOICE Africa staff that many more of Christians who have been or are being trained to teach the VOICE curriculum will take the next step to implement what they have learned for the sake of God’s kingdom.
 |
| South Sudanese refugee children at the recent Easter Camp doing the actions for the definition of Values. |
Toward the end of her visit, Beth mentioned that her highlight was the warm welcome she received from God’s people and their interest in the opportunity in East Africa for exposing children and youth to Biblical values and the Gospel. Another highlight, also close to my heart, was the serious interest/consideration shown by two churches to add at least one of the two VOICE projects to their budgets: 1) strengthening the ongoing growth of VOICE Africa in Uganda ($15,000+) and 2) translation/printing of another VOICE Africa module of curriculum: Self-Control in Swahili and/or Purity in Amharic ($25,000).
God is at work!
