Works in Progress

After returning from Israel and Egypt I have had the chance to spend some good time with our CGA secondary students that have returned to Mbita from their various schools. During the month-long break between school terms, we organized two weeks of tutoring in Math, Physics and Chemistry for 45 of them. It was a great opportunity to provide assistance in the subjects that most of them struggle with the most. We hired two excellent secondary teachers that worked with them each afternoon for an hour in each subject. At the end of each day we would give them an hour for sports.

Last week we hosted a week-long reunion. We do that during every holiday. All but four of our seventy students we support was able to return for the program. The time was used to encourage the kids in developing positive relationships and staying away from unhealthy physical relationships with the opposite sex. There was also time for discipleship, discussion, counselling, advising, studying, community service and sports. I also was able to share a slide show from my journey to Israel and Egypt and we watched the movie Prince Caspian and used it as a teaching tool.

I hit the ground running from the time I returned to Mbita, but it has been so sucessful and encouraging. It is a blessing to see how God is working in these childrens' lives. Being around them for a couple of weeks, I can see growth in so many of them

We shared with them that we don't want CGA and Mbita to always depend on the U.S. Our prayer is that with the support of CGA, these children will get a quality education and be successful in life. Ten years down the road these students will be the ones that are sponsoring children at CGA and giving back to this community in various ways. They will be the teachers, doctors and engineers that are impacting their world for God.