The Good news . . . . .We were initially a little disappointed that we only have a three-person team going from the USA this year. It was a bit of a letdown after our ten-adult and eight-teenager team from last year. Anyway We just accepted that this is God’s plan for this year and started to plan accordingly. The good news is that we still ended up teach thirteen classes again this year even with our reduced contingent from America. This was one more than last year. This means that our local partners are starting to take this program over and make it their own.
Taking over. . . . .
Our South African teams have demonstrated their ability take over and run this program by the very fact that we were able to teach as many students this year with a three person American contingent as we were able to do last year with an eighteen person team. They have continued to demonsrate their desire to own this program by teaching another 1253 students in the two months since we have returned from the trip.
Expanding Geographically . . . . .
Zodwa, our faithful sister got married this year and moved away from Richards Bay. Her new husband is an evangelist with his own church in Soshanguve 40Km north west of Pretoria. They brought nine young people from their church to learn the program and team-teach with us so that they can take the program back to their area, which is in a different province. God’s plan is spreading the program geographically. We have evangalized three new areas telling them about the success of Better Choices and we are hopeful that by next year some of those areas will have adopted the program. The three new areas are: Port Edward, Ixopo, and Creighton. We have also just had a request to train a group of teachers in the city of Greytown.
