ANTICIPATED SINCE JANUARY, LITERACY CLASS BEGINS
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May 16, 2008
by David Bell
The people have talked about it since January. Now it's happening. A group of Siawi people in Papua New Guinea are learning to read and write their language.
More than a dozen boys and several women stay after the Bible teaching to attend literacy classes each morning.
Okwep oversees the school and keeps the classes on schedule. Saisu is the main teacher and four or five young men are assisting him.
Saisu wants to teach the young men to be teachers, hoping that they can teach the course next time.
"We cannot tell you how excited we are to see, not only the literacy teaching, but also Saisu passing on what he knows to young men who will come behind and continue that work," wrote missionary Tom Brendle.
"Please pray for Mese, Sokwawe, Maenae and several of the ladies who have taken the course before and just haven't been able to get it," Tom wrote. "These ladies really want to be able to read God's Word."
Attending a class five mornings a week cuts into the time the women have for finding and preparing their food. Pray that God would provide abundantly for them during this time of teaching.
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