Walkabout

On Wednesday, George went to town, on a mission. His goal was to visit a few schools to see if he could start Christian Clubs or help with their existing ones. George’s life was changed by the advisor of his high school’s Christian Club and knows how valuable it can be to the students. George’s advisor, Charles, became like a father to George and sacrificed his time off to help George. As an orphan and sent away by relatives, George had to come up with school fees on his own. Many weekends, he and Charles would walk trying to find people to sponsor him, sometimes up to 20 kilometers because they didn’t have money for transport. Charles and his wife, Emily, discipled George and taught him so much. While they didn’t have money to help, they provided love, counseling, guidance and family. More than ten years later, George is still close with them. Charles and Emily even walked me down the aisle at our wedding in place of my family who couldn’t be there. We can only hope and pray the Lord would use us in the life of a needy student like He did with Charles and Emily.

Back to Wednesday. A friend of ours has a friend who is a teacher so George started there. What he found out was slightly discouraging. Sometimes things are easy here and other times, the process is complicated. Some schools would be an immediate, definite no for a variety of reasons: a Muslim principal, beliefs of the school (ex. A Catholic school wouldn’t allow it), etc. For the ones that are a possibility, some may have lots of requirements, certifications, approval letters, etc that are needed first.

The students are on break now, so when they return, George will go back and see what he can do. There is a college campus near our house, so he’ll try that too once school is back in session in a couple weeks.