FAMILY EMPOWERMENT LITERACY PROGRAM

Our Family Empowerment team has launched a Literacy Program that seeks to teach Makarios parents how to read and write. We are striving always to help our parents be both transformed by the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and become ethical leaders in their communities. We caught up with Adrianne Christian who co-leads this program with Andrea Guerrero and this is what she had to say.

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​The Literacy Program will have completed 3 weeks this Thursday. We started Cycle I on March 5th and are meeting Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30-7:00 and will last through mid-June. Cycle II will begin this September. The first half hour of each class is a devotional time. Over half of the ladies who are participating are not believers. It is our hope that by participating in the program they will come to know the Lord and be able to read their Bibles one day, in addition to the practical day-to-day advantages that reading will give them.

We have 11 moms currently registered in the program and a great team of supporters who help teach the lessons. The moms we are working with knew very little, if anything in terms of reading and writing, when they entered the program. They either never had the opportunity to go to school, or went for a short period of time but never completed even first grade.

We have a support team which is made up of people from the communities, moms who can read, and teachers from Makarios as well as local church members. The ladies are extremely excited to finally be learning to read and write and we have seen so much progress in just these first couple of weeks. The program is meant to help each person learn at their own pace. Now in the third week, we are already seeing some who learn quickly and others who need more individual help and even a different approach.

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The Literacy Program is one of many pilot programs the Family Empowerment Ministry is hoping will become permanent programs offered to parents who need help. What that means is that we are adjusting the program and saving everything as we go so that it can be a sustainable program used over and over again. Other pilot programs in the works are geared towards Leadership, Discipleship, and Adult Education classes that focus on vocational skills, health, stewardship, and citizenship.

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