Your Questions Answered

I've found that many of you are very curious as to what it's like ministering in Sudan. You have many questions. So I thought it would be good to answer some of the questions I've been asked in the next few posts. Enjoy and don't hesitate to leave a comment or ask further questions. I'd love to hear from you.

Question: I know you're somehow involved in education, but who and what are you teaching?

Answer: I teach primary school teachers, between the ages of 21 - 60's, how to teach, how to read and write English; I teach them how to use English; I teach Accelerated Learning Classes as part of an Accelerated Learning Program (ALP), level I, II, III & IV to young adult learners; ALP consist of 4 courses: English, Math, Social Studies and Science. Level 1 combines primary 1 & 2, Level II combines primary 3 & 4, level III combines primary 5 & 6 and level IV combines primary 7 & 8.

Ostensibly, I am teaching primary school English to young adults and adults who have not been able to receive an education during the 21 years of civil war. But because they have had no schooling for over 21 years, and these are teachers who will be teaching others, I usually find myself teaching not only English, but Social Studies, Geography, African Diaspora History, Christian Religious Education, Church History and of course, Women's Studies. I also teach Teaching Methodology and Leadership Skills.

Question: What is the classroom like?

Answer: Sometimes, the classroom is a brick building, without a ceiling but iron (tin) sheets for roof, with steel/tin bar widows and doors, so that the termites can't eat through them; the chairs are always plastic, lawn chairs, that are portable so the teachers can take with them when they go to eat, and back to where they sleep and return them to the class for the next day's lesson. Sometimes the classroom is a mud building with iron (tin) roof, and dirt floor.

That's it for this post. What you you think about what I just shared? Leave your comment by clicking the link labeled 'comments' below.

Welcome to 'In Sudan'

"Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the children of God! Therefore the world knows us not, because it did not know Him" (I John 3: 1)

I am so thankful to our Father that He's provided this space for us to have exchanges about what, by the power of his Holy Spirit, He is doing with/in my life in Southern Sudan. I am thankful, too, for our dear brother in Virginia, Charles, who has set up this blog, and who has promised to assist me with it in the future. Most of all though, I am eternally thankful for each and all of who will visit the site regularly to get some additional insights into my experiences as "we" labour together in southern Sudan, and who, I hope, will be encouraged to pray without ceasing for the members of our eternal Family in southern Sudan, that "they may prosper in all things and be in health, just as their soul prospers" in our Lord Jesus, amen. I bless Almighty God our Father for your continued loving support of me in His mission in Southern Sudan.
All for His utmost glory, Ingrid

I thought I'd share with you a poem I wrote over two years ago, while I was on an ecumenical silent retreat in the hills of Virginia. The Holy Spirit had impressed on my mind that He wanted me to follow Him more concertedly into His mission, internationally; this poem was a part of my response to Him:

Calling?

Here, in Beulah Methodist kitchen
where ladybugs like spring flowers bloom
I embrace my cup, its scooped
heart now raised to my mouth.

I'll drink and eat where life is weaved
with bread and wine.

My calling: a blue-hued pitcher
pouring
Water
here
below. . .

Copyright 2005 Ingrid Reneau