Mary Crowgey

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Prayer Letter/Ministry Update

We praise the Lord for an enrollment of nearly 1,000 students in 14 classes (2 each of grades 6 through 12) at Lycee Maranatha here in Bobo-Dioulasso this year. The majority of our students are not from evangelical homes. If you do the math, you will see that the average class size here is quite a bit more than what we are familiar with.

On each class schedule is an hour that is set aside for "Civil and religious instruction" during which the Bible is taught by our school chaplain.

Many of our students have lost either their father or their mother, sometimes both, which reflects the general situation of the youth in Burkina. We have been able to provide some financial help to many of these, including a hot meal each school day, which is greatly appreciated by the students and their families, and is a good testimony, as the students are chosen based on need and not on religious affiliation.

Toward the end of the first trimester the students had a wonderful surprise. Rev. Schaeffer's church in Ohio sent us sports shoes, enough that we were able to give a pair of brand new shoes to each of our students!

First trimester is now history and our students are hard at work, especially those in the 9th and 12th grades who have tough exit exams to pass in the late spring or early summer.

Prayer Requests/Answers to Prayer

Please continue to pray that the Lord will again this year use the ministry of Lycee Maranatha to draw many of our students to Himself.

All of our permanent staff members are evangelical Christians but many of our part-time professors (and there are around 40 of them) are not, as it is difficult to find evangelicals qualified to teach all the subjects. Pray that the Lord will call more of our young Christians into training for this vital ministry.

One of our Christian professors of science is working on an advanced university degree and cannot finish out the year with us. Please pray that the director will be able to find a suitable person to fill in for the next two trimesters.

Praise the Lord that the mission bookkeeping has gone fairly well this year during the home assignment of our regular bookkeeper.

Burkina Faso

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