It’s about the children!
As shared by Shared by Noemia Cessito:
600! That’s how many are enrolled in our schools this year. How far we have come!
Back in 1982, I heard that said the children in Africa were dying from hunger and hopelessness. I prayed, God I want to go to Africa. I want to talk with these children about Jesus. God said, Yes!
I arrived in Mozambique two years later. It was a time of civil war and a communist regime. All the children in the country were considered the property of the government. I couldn’t get permission to do any evangelism because of opposition to the church. So I volunteered to work in the pediatric and orthopedic wards of a hospital. I saw a lot of soldiers return with wounds from battle and broken bones. But my heart remained with the children. There were so many wandering the streets. Finally we were able to start a small work in the villages of Dondo and Mafarinha.
Later Children’s Relief International began a partnership with us. We needed a classroom and they helped us build it. We needed chairs and tables and supplies and we got these too. Then a kitchen.
I began to dream bigger dreams. But I never imagined our work would become what it is today. We are going to educate a new generation of Mozambicans who know God and who live with hope and integrity.
God bless you for your part in making these 600 possible.