GRATITUDE
Gavin and I are explaining the next step of the elephant Project
This year 2014 has been wonderful year and brought a lot of experiences in my personal life and family. It was not easy but excited to see God's hand among His people, in Africa, especially in D R Congo. the future looks bright for the elephant project in D R Congo and developing world as Association of Christian Schools International is projecting in the near future to expand it to the rest of the world.
Mike Epp, Global vice president is explaining the situation of ACSI
Mike & Cindy Epp and Laci visited the France office
when I was there meeting with Daniel Neuhaus and J C Huet
I am learning from Daniel Neuhaus of ACSI- France
Dr. Ken Coley in Kinshasa during the August session on Leadership
Participants Moreover, the year 2014 was the launching of the Elephant Project. First of all it is crucial to understand the Elephant Project, and I will introduce you briefly to the pilot program and finally I will present the projection and strategies to expand the project in the country and other parts of the Region. The Elephant Project is educational project to equip teachers and schools leaders from the developing countries. For the moment it started in D R Congo last July 2014, and it will be run for two (2) years in the pilot schools. The next step is to train teachers, especially lead-teachers from the pilot schools, and trainers who will carry on the training in other nations.
Trainers meeting after the July Training Last January and February, a group of 25 schools was selected to participate in the elephant projects and they are the pilot schools. The researcher's assistants visited the all twenty-five schools and they conducted the baseline assessment and school evaluation. On July and August 122 schools leaders and teachers from private and protestant schools attended the training. It was a wonderful experience for the school leaders in D R Congo and many of them stated that most of the educational concepts introduced are new to them, and tremendously they embraced them with the intention to incorporate them in their daily duties at schools.
Family is so grateful to you all who support us in this assignment to train and equip men and women of God in the schools in D R Congo and Central Africa Region My gratitude is to all of Fuller avenue Christian Reformed Church at Grand Rapids, Michigan, Church of the Servant, Hayes Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Eglise du Christ au Congo, especially to Bishop Idore Nyamuke and Rev. Lala Unsi who accepted me as one of them, and gave me the opportunity to serve, and minister to teachers and school leaders. My gratitude is also to Bible League International who devoted themselves to provide Bible and English materials for schools in D R Congo, especially for those of Kinshasa, Bandundu and Bas Congo provinces.
The extension of this work in all Central Africa region requires many people involved, and significant financial support. More than 48 Congolese educators signed up to become trainers in elephant project, and to carry on the training into other part of the country and entire Central Africa Region. This effort will need significant financial support to get all of these people involve and take the training in rural and urban areas. Therefore, I need your prayers that God provides and equip His servants to grow His Kingdom, and any dollars given will be used to take the training where it must go. I believe in the next five years many villages and cities will be reached and teachers from all of these environment will be equip as it attend too.
