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September 07, 2008

School lunch

Pastor Jean-Baptiste tells this story of when he was a teacher in a Christian school:

"There were two Muslim girls in my class. They were intelligent girls, but they would fall asleep in class. I called them to come and chat.

'Monsieur', they said, 'it is because we are hungry.'

I checked out and found there were 20 people in their families with hardly any food. I was given some money and bought their families five sacks of millet. I told them to use the millet for the whole family, but that there was one sack for each girl.

The father of one of the girls thought I wanted to marry her, and that was why I had given the food! I told him that it wasn't that, but that they were intelligent girls and I wanted them to come to school with a full stomach so they could study.

That girl became a Christian. Today she is the minister for Human Rights in the Burkina government. And she loves Jesus."

Our school is targetting the neediest children. We are already getting interest from local families - including two Christian Fulani families - who want to send their children to the school we are starting. For another glimpse of the importance of school meals, see Steve's story from 2004 of a Fulani boy at school.

Please pray as we try and find the funding and the best way to provide school meals for our new school pupils. Thank you.

Posted by Keith at September 7, 2008 06:59 AM