The students are preparing for final exams. School ends in just a few weeks. As we look back on this school year, we are filled with thankfulness and praise to see what the Lord has done through the Scholarship project. He has provided the money we needed to pay for all 12 of the students’ school supplies and fees for this past year – and not only that --- there is still enough money in the Scholarship Project account to pay for all of the students again next year! We are so grateful to all of you who have given and prayed – thank you! God has blessed in other ways too: He has answered our worried prayers for the students with tough living situations here in Kaffrine and He has also blessed the young guys’ Bible study group and the girls’ Bible storying group beyond what we had hoped for!
The young men in the first group are meeting constantly, praying for each other, studying the Word deeply, and desiring to do everything they can to draw others to Christ. The girls’ group continues to have new kids come every week; in fact, each Saturday we seem to have added another boy or two – to the point that I don’t feel I can call it a girls’ group anymore – there are too many boys! This younger group is a good mix of the kids from the Scholarship Project who come from a Christian background and others who are from Muslim or Catholic backgrounds and who are hearing the Bible stories for the first time.
I was encouraged yesterday when one of the young believers from the Scholarship Project told me that one of his classmates is interested in coming to the girls’ group. He asked me if it was too late for her to join the group – of course, I said we would be thrilled to have her come! Two of the other young guys from the Wed. group are already talking to some of their friends about coming to the Wolof Christian Children’s Camp at the end of the summer. How long will it be before one of these guys leads a friend to Christ? In all of the time I have lived in Kaffrine, I have not yet seen a Wolof believer lead another Wolof person to Christ – all of the believers I know have heard the Gospel through the work of foreign missionaries. If these young local believers catch the vision for passing on the Good News themselves, it will be the beginning of the answer to our most fervent prayers for the Wolof people – the beginning of a People Group Movement. Pray with us that God will use these young people to start a movement where the Truth and the hope, joy, and salvation that accompany it, spreads among the Wolof like wildfire!
As you pray for the children of the Scholarship Project, you can specifically be praying for the following things:
--Pray for the public high-school students who are trying to take final exams based on 9 months of study after having only gone to school for about half of that time because of the strikes.
--Pray that we will be able to register all of the Scholarship high-schoolers in local private schools for next year so they will be able to study all year and not be affected by the strikes.
--Pray that all of the Scholarship students will pass into the next grade. This is not a given here, even in elementary school, as the grading is much stricter than in the U.S.
--Pray for the Lord to provide the $2,680 we need to run the Wolof Christian Children’s Camp at the end of this summer. Pray that all of the Scholarship students will be able to attend, that they will invite their interested friends, and that God will bless the camp and touch the hearts of the young people who attend in life-changing ways.
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