{"id":11552,"date":"2020-04-07T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/?post_type=prayerline&p=11552"},"modified":"2020-04-07T10:07:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T09:07:56","slug":"how-graduates-are-transforming-communities-in-one-year","status":"publish","type":"prayerline","link":"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/prayerline\/how-graduates-are-transforming-communities-in-one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"How graduates are transforming communities in one year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The classroom walls are bare. Five or six teenagers crowd around each small wooden table, reading. Their teacher is not much older than them \u2013 Helena. She\u2019s just graduated from university and is spending a year serving a community in northeast Ghana, as part of the GHAFES Ghana STICS<\/em> program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Helena is there with another graduate, Bright. Together they\u2019ve set up a reading club, two youth clubs and a library \u2013 besides their ongoing work of teaching in the local school, serving in the four churches and sharing the gospel with the 95% Muslim population.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Graduates Peter and Faustina are serving elsewhere on STICS <\/em>programs, teaching and working with the local church and community. The area they\u2019re in is 98% Muslim. There is no internet, no lighting. Temperatures are regularly well over 40\u00b0C. It\u2019s not an easy environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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But Peter and Faustina have been able to start a reading and writing club, preach regularly at church, offer career guidance and counselling for high school students and speak at community durbars (meetings for the local community where issues like education or hygiene are discussed).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Will you pray for these GHAFES graduates this week?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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