Teaching How to Teach English

We are thankful for Nance, who flew in from Kuwait, to train our staff in how to teach English to children.

Nance did a great job, teaching two sessions a day and more than helping everyone to understand the principles involved when teaching young learners the English language. Everyone had a great time and learned a lot of practical teaching methods that will be put into practice once the tutorials start again in October after Ramadan is over.

Thanks Nance for your diligence and hard work!

Building School Desks for Jantho

Thanks to Geoff from England who bought the wood we were able to construct 32 school desks for the facility at Jantho.

We are now able to better teach the children at Jantho as they learn English and other subjects.

Our latest team member!

Christina Coleman, our latest addition to the team, arrived today in Banda Aceh!

She will be joining our Jantho team as a teacher for our children there, teaching them English as well as leading sports activities.

Christina plans to be here only until the Christmas vacation but we know that she will be a valuable addition for that time. Thanks for coming all the way to Banda Aceh Christina!

Updates from Aceh

The children here are doing well. They now have mandatory lessons at school. We will be having birthday celebrations and field trips in March for them. The baking classes have also gone very well in Jantho with plans for another session in March.

Our friends will be moving there soon in hope to set up some agriculture and fish ponds, and also starting some children and women's training classes in April.

Plans for 2008

• We hope to increase the number of sponsors for our children in Banda Aceh and Medan. There are 56 who have funding thus far of the approximately 190 we have registered. More are waiting to register with us.
• Outfitting of four buildings for widow and orphans ministry, three in Lhok Nga and one in Jantho. Connect Lhok Nga to water source.
• Start widow training in Jantho in January.
• Our team will move in February.

Looking ahead

We are also looking into a computer lab/coffee house/bakery/language center to start in Banda Aceh. This will be a multi-faceted place of business and training to the local people. We pray for this to become a reality in the near future hopefully by next spring.