After a week of rain and waiting for all the boys to arrive, we have officially started classes at Beacon of Hope in Mozambique!
Beacon of Hope is run by Angie Wheeler (She’s from Texas. Whoo! fellow American!) and is a place for teenage boys to come for schooling, other skills, a better chance at life, and hope. (the website is here if you want to learn more: http://www.beaconofhope-africa.org/
There are 8 boys currently here and six of them are returning from last year. They are allowed to stay for up to 5 years. I love getting to interact with them, watch them play soccer, see them chopping grass with machetes, and admire how respectful they are to their leaders and each other. It has been an honor for our two teams to have the opportunity to teach these boys’ classes; classes like Math, English, Business, Science, God’s Word, Journaling, etc.
Praying over the school supplies: blessing for the people who donated them and Life into the new school year ahead.
There are 14 world racers here so we divvied up the classes we wanted to teach. During all the rain last week, we had lots of time to work on our lesson plans. I volunteered for the Journaling class and had so much fun creating an outline for the class! On Tuesday I taught the lesson and Enia was my translator. She is Angie’s adopted 12 year-old daughter.
Me and Enia teachin' class.
I was nervous to teach and worried that I wouldn’t get the point across clearly. But Enia did an amazing job and I really felt like the boys got the idea! For the first time since getting to Mozambique, I felt energized and useful. And in the midst of that realization, God taught me a lesson too.
I have been fighting this lie: “I am useless when I am not doing.” I know the truth: I do not have to be doing all the time in order to prove my worth. I am worthy simply because God loves me and chose me to be here for such a time as this. He chose to use a 12 year old girl as my translator so that I would rely on Him all the more. And now, because I am already worthy, my doing has more passion and meaning…no matter who or how He chooses to get the point across.
Ha, and I thought I was here to do the teaching. I am thankful that I won’t ever fully grasp God’s love for me here on this earth and that I have the rest of my life to learn as much of it as I can. I won’t stop running after it because He has created me, worthy of the calling.
