God Works in Teachers’ Lives Too

Saturday we filled in for a Guidance and Counseling teacher at a near-by Secondary School and taught two Values lessons on Forgiveness in 1 hour and 20 minutes. We have new appreciation for the more than 130 students this counseling teacher handles three or more times each week. When we finished, Sir Nicholas, the School Deputy, came to greet us. As we chatted with him, he expressed his appreciation for what we were teaching and went on to say “Our teachers also need these values. Is it possible for you to arrange for a time to teach these values to us too?” Since we still aren’t overly knowledgeable about how schools work here in Uganda, we requested him to speak with Susan when she returns to the school this week. So, who knows where this will lead?

Also today as we interacted with volunteer test teacher Joan at Scripture Union, she shared how well her first two lessons on Forgiveness had gone in her Upper Primary class. The only “difficulty” had been the obvious reluctance, almost opposition, from the classroom teacher. However after the teacher listened to the second lesson, her face changed to a smile. She approached Joan at the close of her lesson and offered more time to continue the good lesson…and expressed a desire that these lessons be taught to all the classes in the school.

We praise God for these encouragements and pray that God may give us wisdom and more labourers to minister in the schools and that teachers may be touched and reached for the Saviour.