God’s Truth Impacts Pupils and Their Families

A week ago or so, our colleague, Beth, was in Mbarara, western Uganda, and “just happened” to find a Values Education Class (VEC) being taught by a student of Uganda Christian University (UCU), Lorna, whom we had trained a couple of months ago. Beth was impressed with the quality of the teaching and thrilled to witness God’s Word being shared in the classroom.

During yesterday’s VOICE Africa staff meeting, our male member of the staff, Chris, shared his joy for the opportunity he had to join the final meeting of a VEC fairly near to the Scripture Union office. It was taught by another student of UCU, Elizabeth, whom we had also helped to train. The children eagerly sang the songs and repeated the Values Promises for their visitor, Chris. It was obvious that it had been a good experience for everyone.

Distributing Bookmarks to Elizabeth's Class (Chris as the photographer)
The pupils in the back were not part of her class
but who wished they had been.

Elizabeth with the cake she made for her two classes of VEC.

In preparation for a meeting later today at UCU, I put together a short report of this first time pilot project from our point of view. I decided to phone both of the students whose classes had been observed recently. Lorna chose two schools, one in a more rural area and one in a Municipal area. My initial question, “How did your teaching of the Truth Module go in an actual classroom?”  was answered by her describing a sense of being being overwhelmed by the positive feedback from both pupils and parents. In the rural school, two M pupils showed keen interest plus three others trusted Christ as Saviour. In the Municipal School, the administrators were so pleased with Truth being taught to their pupils that they photocopied the Activity Sheets so that all 135 students could have their own copy.  

Elizabeth also taught two classes but in the same school, a Grade 4 and a Grade 5 Class. In answer to my question, she shared the thrill of witnessing a visible difference when her pupils embraced the truth that each one of them are special, created by God and precious to Him.  Elizabeth who bakes and sells cakes, decided to show her pupils how special they were by baking a cake (a very rare treat) for them on the last day of VEC.  Pupils were thrilled to not only receive a bookmark but cake as well.