from Grace

Its been a busy week. On Mondays, we have started a program in the primary school nearby to teach a group of 12 children a package prepared by Tearfund, “Safe children karaoke program”. We have 11 sessions to teach about self-esteem, peer pressure, drugs, physical and sexual abuse. We have added another weekly session to have a ‘Club Time’ in the school – where drama activities and crafts are done to reinforce the lessons taught on Mondays.

Amazing how the Lord has opened the door for us to work with the school that is actually situated on temple grounds. The school authorities have expressed that we cannot share the gospel on the school grounds. We respect that. But there are also many other opportunities to meet the kids and their families – in 2 weeks time, we will have the first Parent’s group session with the parents of the kids in the program held at our premises.


Yesterday we had the first of two training sessions for the teachers of the school on Identifying Child Abuse. Today we’ll have a session with the staff of a partner Christian NGO, TASK.

When I look back, I see the many connections that has made all this possible. When the youth team from REACH Family Service Center visited in December 2005, they raised funds to help renovate a school room and conducted English activity lessons with some students in the school. The students enjoyed it very much and the school appreciated what the team did. It opened the door for us to propose to do more with the school.

When Tapestry Playback Theatre members visited us also in December last year, we learnt about spontaneous theatre and enjoyed it tremendously. That inspired many ideas to create a highly-participative curriculum for the students.

We are certainly reaping the benefits of those visits now. May it multiply many times more as we continue to labor with the strength that the Lord gives and with the many partners that He sends our way.