Our Call Missions
Uganda, Africa
Keith and Lisa Coggin
February 1, 2017



            Today we traveled to Kampala, about a two-hour trip, to receive our residency Sticker. We were just awarded another 10 years at a residency status here in Uganda. This means that we will be able to go in and out of the country without a visa. While we were in Kampala we visited one of the ministries that use our Roots to Fruits Christian curriculum in their preschool and 1st and 2nd grades. They have used it for all of last year and were offering us feedback on the results they see in their teachers and children.
            They reported that the children show great advances in reading, comprehension, critical thinking, creativity, less discipline problems, and most of all they know the Lord and His word!!
The teachers are very excited about the curriculum although they have had struggles in changing the way they teach. The Roots to Fruits curriculum has helped them make these changes all from the Biblical perspective!
NEEDS AND PRAYER REQUEST:
·      There are well over 100 schools that have requested to use this curriculum to teach their children. Through using this curriculum that is based on the Bible, we will be able to reach thousands of children with the gospel of Jesus and disciple them in the classrooms!!

·      We desperately need funding to finish this development.
Cost needs are for more writers’ salaries, printing costs, readers (initial sets that will be bought by schools and begin the rotation of repurchasing from those funds), travel to visit archives in Ethiopia for validating the content and context ($2500)—This is needed soon as the availability of renowned African Historian is in March.

At the Educator Development Institute (EDI), we currently have an income generating project to help with various project costs. It is a piggery!!  One of our sows just gave birth to 6 piglets and the other sow will deliver soon.
            We just spent a week with the Educators in Ongoing Professional Development, refreshing them with the word of God, prayers and fellowship as well as additional training for their work in the Village Learning Centers.

The Village Learning Centers will open again at the end of February for the second year of teaching in the two villages. The first year was a great blessing and both villages experience a transformation: They now have a central focus for their cooperation and support as a community… their school!!

New piglets at the EDI.


Some of the parents are bringing foodstuffs for the educators in preparation for the Shalom Village learning Center to open.



One of the children at the Shalom Village Learning Center. After one year he can speak English and read and write. But more importantly he knows how to talk to God!



         

Oscar                                                              Andrew


 

                 Benson                                                 Paul









     


                    Amos                                                                                                                  Samuel

These are our 6 Educators. Serving faithfully in very difficult settings.


 Please pray for them.

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