“My mother would like three of my younger relatives to come to your school,” Chalot said to me one Sabbath a few weeks ago. The real reason she had come was to ask me to come and help her mother who was sick and dizzy and had fallen the night before. Examining the woman, I found she had high blood pressure, so I showed her some natural ways to lower it. The next Sabbath, I went to visit and check her again. Her blood pressure had decreased almost to normal.
Before I left, she asked me about sending her children to our school. I talked with her about the scholarship options we could offer them. Chalot has 11 kids in her family. I don’t know how they can even afford to feed so many mouths, but they were willing to pay something for schooling. That week Chalot came and registered three of her siblings. Chalot is also taking English classes from the school in the evenings. She has studied the Bible some already with the local church planter and wants to get baptized, but her parents aren’t favorable to it. She is scared to do it without their permission. Please pray that as we get to know her family more, and as their children come to the school, they will be willing to let Chalot get baptized, and maybe the other children as well someday.
Our school opened two months ago, and we have 38 students in Kindergarten through second grade. Thank you for your many prayers! All of the parents know that their children are receiving a Christian education and that we teach from the Bible. This week we had a “Parents’ Night” and invited the parents to a program about health. Thirty-seven adults and 25 children attended. We pray this school will be a light in the community and lead many to Christ.
Currently, we are in need of funds for desks, whiteboards, playground equipment, a photocopy machine, and more. If you would like to help children like Chalot, please mark your donation “Pnong School Project.” Thank you so much for the support you’ve given to open our school.
