Wednesday, February 4th
Gateway Primary School and Gateway High School are private Christian schools in the capital city with which TEAM has had a close association from their beginning and from which a number of TEAM missionaries’ children have graduated. A fellowship of believers begun by TEAM missionaries continues to meet for worship at the primary school. The leadership of these schools has always had a keen interest in the spiritual and socio-economic need of the people in the community and nation as a whole, and have engaged in ways to meet this need. On Wednesday morning, TEAM’s area leader and I met with one of the headmasters to talk about how we might work together to better protect uninfected children in Zimbabwe from contracting the HIV virus.
I was able to present the dynamics of “Reach4Life”, a program developed by the International Bible Society based in South Africa and directed by a dear friend whom we had known from early days in Zimbabwe.
The Reach4Life program is aimed at the youth of Africa, offering a life-transforming encounter based on the text of the Bible and resulting from a year-long curriculum. The program’s statistical record show genuine success. Having recently produced their millionth (New Testament), and after having been embraced globally in a number of applications, they offer a well and comprehensively contained program to churches, schools and organizations that are approved for partnership with them.
Reach 4 Life is a “plug and play” option available to TEAM with a clearly defined approach to HIV/AIDS prevention by means of spiritual life transformation.
We are poised to enter into a partnership with Reach4Life. There seems to be a very real possibility that TEAM will be able to connect with Reach4Life in a strategy that would prove effective in protecting those at risk from the virus but as yet uninfected.
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