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2 Southern Cross Educational Enterprises That they may be One John 17:11 ...UNITED by Mr. Slabbert Pretorius M.D.
We should be United through fine It is no excuse but when you are very Jesus prayed: "And now I am no threads or lines that will scoop up the busy it is possible to let a few things harvest. fall through the cracks. When we are in more in the world, but these are in From SCEE’s point of view we will try unity, we dream together, talk together, and do what we can to connect with plan together and work together. We the world, and I come to thee. Holy you and take your hand in support of also pick up balls dropped by our fellow your ministry. TEAM members. We will be patient Father, keep through thine own with one another and we will cover a multitude of weaknesses. That will help name those whom thou hast given us take hands and be whole as a net. me, that they may be one, as we Achieving success through unity
are." John 17:11 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU SOME IMAGES OF FISHING NETS – notice that there is more nothing than something.
You can see straight through it. It is the something, the lines bound together that make the net effective. That is what we need to understand and try and achieve. We all have a lot of differences, but we need to take hands and be bound together when it comes to We have developed a number of Biblical Worldview Education. projects and develop systems to More nothing than something improve our support of our TEAM ministries. We have limited resources But it is the places where we and manpower, but will do our best. Please do not hesitate to connect with connect that makes the difference Editor: Anna-Marie Pretorius Graphic Design: Solet Prinsloo us from your side to remind us of your Proof Reading: Carolyn Pearce needs or follow up on requests made. Printing: Southern Cross Educational Enterprises Printing Ministries connect2 POSTAGE PAID Southern Cross Educational EnterprisesAUSTRALIA Teamwork Provides Mutual • and a RPM slogan to articulate Accomplishment, Encouragement, ourselves and explain to people Inspiration, and Protection what A.C.E. is about. The RPM is From the RETURN ADDRESS: P.O. Box 3102, Caboolture, Qld. 4510, Australia to motivate and mobilize all TEAM A Few things to pray about: members to be more efficient and Chairman achieve more: Mr. Trevor Phillips • We have again submitted Hello again dear friends within the ACE South our intention to apply for the R – Results. We are RESULT driven Pacific community. There has been a flurry of recognition of the Australian A.C.E and the results we desire will activity within our SCEE Head Office and our team Framework as an alternative to the determine our priorities and not a have been achieving significant things in and for Australian Curriculum. to-do list. the ministry. Whilst the team are active at home our Managing Director Slabbert Pretorius, together • We have also started the processes P – Purposes. We all need to with his wife Anna-Marie, have been busy across to apply for an official recognition understand our specific purpose in the region meeting with many of our educators of the A.C.E. program in Papua New the God’s Kingdom and in the TEAM in the various nations and making some great Guinea, New Zealand, The Solomon M – Massive Action. Every single contact with Officials in Government and the Islands, Fiji, Indonesia and some of member must do something small Education Departments. Much is yet to be done the smaller Island nations. every day and our combined effort and we will continue to build on the foundations • We are in submission to and will be massive. laid with a view to advancing ACE in the region. aligning ourselves with A.C.E. in the • We have developed the Staff In travelling around our region it is very clear USA and work with them to achieve Enrichment Workbooks (SEW), the that our collective ministry (that includes SCEE their goal. Reaching the World for Staff Extended Training program and all of the ACE schools and families) needs Christ one child at a time. (SET), the Parents Biblical Mandate to be a ministry where there is true Unity in our diversity. Unity is not easy because human nature • Our mission statementREDWOOD is: SCEE COLLEGEBooklets (PMB) and other material Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, is naturally selfish. It needs our specific intent and is a ministry that offers Biblical he will notto depart support from it. Proverbs our 22:6 schools in achieving commitment to be “Unified”. In Luke 22: 24-26 Educational resources to equip certain outcomes. after the disciples had broken bread with Jesus people for their God ordained TOGETHER WE WILL STAND. it is reported that there was strife amongst them role in Life TOGETHER WE WILL SURVIVE. “And there was also a strife among them, which • We have developed a clear Elevator TOGETHER WE WILL BE BETTER, of them should be accounted the greatest.” It can speech: be easy for any one of us to slip into jealousy and GROW BIGGER AND REACH MORE. self-interest. We are however not to be like that. We are a ministry and offers Jesus set the ultimate example as ‘one who serves’ and each of us are called to follow that example. I A Biblical Worldview Remember we will pray for you and we are working with you. think also of an often used saying throughout the Character enriched ages “United we stand, divided we fall”. Mark 3:25 English Medium Let’s RUN for Christ. supports this concept also therefore it is my plea that we all work together, United in our purpose, Internationally Benchmarked so that collectively, we overcome evil with good Individual and personalized Your Brother in Christ. and achieve huge amounts for the kingdom. Mastery Based More than ever we need to be on our knees, united Learning System Slabbert Pretorius. in prayer, knowing that our God is able to assist us all in the goal of reaching our communities for Him.
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- by Rosemary Lincolne state and independent sectors and was 1981 and have witnessed all of these harmonious to faith based schools. The changes. Some I have seen from the school grew and thrived in the small sidelines, others I have been heavily Our task is to do the rural community of Latrobe. involved in. best we can, keeping By 1980, there were classes from Prep Throughout these ups and downs, our focus on the job to Grade 6, with enrollments around one thing has remained constant; at hand and trusting 140. Mr. Lincolne had heard about the presence of God! His goodness, the Accelerated Christian Education correction, guidance, provision, mercy, in the promise, that movement and sought information. grace and love and therefore we have a those who honour Consequently Geneva went over to the hope! Hope that as long as He intends individualised programme mid year, the school to continue, it will continue. Him, He will honour. 1981. Within a week, enrolments had dropped to 71. It was a great blow to Our task is to do the best we can, Welcome the school and certainly raised concerns keeping our focus on the job at hand to the Accelerated Christian Education Godly Character-Building, In the latter part of 1967, Reverend about the decision to change. However and trusting in the promise, that those Self-Instructional Curriculum and Individualized Programs...Lawrie Lincolne, his wife Innes and the belief was, and still is, that God had who honour Him, He will honour. a small group of fellow Christians opened the door in this direction and so The founders of Accelerated Christian Education (A .C .E .) recognized sought God in prayer about ‘what to a great step of faith was taken. that children are unique and learn in different ways . They also realized do next’, with the property at Geneva that education apart from Biblical values is not true education . Since its in Latrobe, Tasmania. What they were Over the next decade the school Fellow Christian inception in 1970, A .C .E . has endeavored to provide Biblical, individualized, lead to do was start a school received registration for Grades 7-12 and Godly character-building educational materials to schools around the and so Geneva Primary we have seen in the past 25 years, ebbs world . We (the leadership and staff of A .C .E .) appreciate the opportunity and flows in our enrolments, popularity, educators, be to assist in the education of your young people . You will find that the School commenced in proven, highly successful A .C .E . program focuses on these distinctives: February, 1968. In those failures and successes. Currently our days the state curriculum enrolment stands at 189, K-12. I have encouraged! Foundation of Scripture, with Biblical principles, was used by both the been with the school since February wisdom, and character development Recognition of the God-given uniqueness of the individual Placement of child at exact academic ability in each subject through diagnostic testing Incorporation of goal setting, motivation, and
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Memory pattern categories Memorization They memorize nursery rhymes, different colors, in different sizes, or in We all learn in Scripture verses, numbers, names, and different settings. The auditory learner their ABCs. Memorization is a game, likes to hear what he is to memorize. different ways. and we applaud their successes, but He may need to subvocalize or record memorization does not necessarily his own voice and listen to himself or Here are three common methods remain fun. In fact, it sometimes a loved one. He may memorize best by which people memorize: becomes a grueling effort, but that with music or other soft sounds in the does not make it any less essential. background. The tactile/ kinesthetic * Visual learners learn through The challenge is to put fun back into learner receives physical stimulation. He seeing. it and find ways to encourage and likes to touch, move, and feel. Helping * Auditory learners learn through help students memorize. To require him memorize might mean letting him listening. memorization is not a punishment we jump rope, tap in rhythm, bounce, or * Tactile/kinesthetic learners learn mete out, but a gift we bestow. walk while memorizing. Remember through moving, doing, and that all children need the three kinds touching. Without a doubt, some students of stimulation. For instance, they may memorize more easily than other quickly memorize the multiplication Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that students. There are several reasons tables while jumping rope, saying I might not sin against thee. Psalm for this, but before we label any them aloud, and seeing them on 119:11 student lazy, stubborn, or incorrigible, a blackboard all at the same time. consider some facts. Not everyone Ideally, use all three for best learning learns the same way, and not everyone processing. In today’s educational climate, the remembers the same way. Throughout value of memorization is sometimes each PACE students are required to Memorizing Scripture is a large part overlooked, but knowledge acquired memorize material. It is reinforced of A.C.E.’s curriculum. For younger through memorization is a basic through reading and answering students, have them say the verse learning outcome. Furthermore, questions in activities, Checkups, Self several times out loud. Write the verse memorization is foundational to critical Tests, and PACE Tests. Memorization and review it each day at school and thinking. To be successful in certain can be individualized through these with their parents. Regardless of your academic and skill areas, students must activities. Children learn in different students’ learning styles, make sure have a store of basic information. They ways and we must recognize that. to adapt to their individualized needs build this store through memorization. so that they may go forth and serve Most educators classify learning Christ in a more meaningful way. Accelerated Christian Education styles into three categories— visual Memorization is essential to education incorporates memorization throughout learners, auditory learners, and tactile/ and success in learning. Encourage its curriculum. Each PACE directs kinesthetic learners. One of the and motivate your students in different students to commit to memory Bible prominent helps you can give a child is ways to develop their memorization verses, spelling, grammar rules, math to identify his or her learning styles and skills because we all have two that are equations, and many facts about the then provide ways to memorize in those more prominent than the other. world in which we live. When children learning styles. The visual learner sees are young, memorization is fun. what he or she is memorizing, maybe in
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BOOK REVIEW: Christian Contours
- By Carolyn Pearce for those interested in pursuing the information in that particular chapter to Christian Contours: How a Biblical a deeper level. Worldview Shapes the Mind and Heart, brings together the minds of 10 highly I personally found the book to be accomplished authors to provide an intellectually stimulating, but rather introductory worldview resource for challenging, particularly as I found all followers of Jesus Christ. Written by some of the reflection questions forced various academics at Northwestern me to confront areas of my thinking College in Iowa, this book is aligned which were not consistent with a to theological standards of the Biblical worldview. I also found some Reformed Church of America, one of of the essays in Part 2 challenged my the conservative movements within the daily way of living by forcing me to I would recommend Christian Protestant tradition. Offering a basic examine not only my witness but also Contours as a useful resource for examination of the Biblical worldview, how intentional I was about living a life Christian Contours is focused on consistent with a Biblical worldview. The school principals to use to develop provoking individual self-examination authors do not shy away from difficult their staff's understanding of as well as the opportunity for group discussions, tackling topics such as study and discussion. The book is how to handle disagreements between Biblical worldview matters. divided into groups of essays (chapters) believers over worldview matters, living Homeschooling parents would focused on two major themes: the Biblical worldview in a culture that does not share it, and encouraging also find this book a great Part 1 – Worldview others to adopt the Biblical worldview. addition to their home library Thinking and the Biblical One of the greatest selling points of this - for encouragement, personal Worldview book is the Appendix materials. There are 3 Appendices: challenge and growth of their
Part 2 – Worldview Appendix A is a 9 page chart that faith. Thinking and Personal compares the significant worldviews of Responsibility our day
Each chapter follows the traditional Appendix B contains 12 pages of useful essay format – introduction of the website links for further study (though topic, the ‘meaty’ argument paragraphs they only reference US and UK sites) offering insight and clarity into how a Biblical worldview should permeate the Appendix C provides 52 pages of life of every believer, and finishing with subject specific overviews for further a concluding paragraph. The author reading – a great tool to use if you are of the essay then offers questions for looking to expand your library! personal reflection or group discussion as well as further reading prompts
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Responding to the Biblical - By Nita Margaretha Lie mandate for Christian education In 2011 Pastor Samuel Julianto rooms being used were functional The coming years are full of Suwondo, the pastor of Hagios rooms that were also used for challenges. Yet, with Him all things Family Pentecostal Church of the church prayer meetings, cell are possible. Hopefully Hagios Indonesia in Yogyakarta, established group meetings, and Sunday school school of Life can be an instrument Hagios School of Life. He has a vision activities. The ACE programs blessed of God’s glory by reaching children of educating children to live their the students and parents and they for Him, one child at a time. lives God’s way. He has the passion shared their testimonies to other to equip students not only with parents. Therefore, in the following knowledge, but also with Biblical years, more students came to wisdom and the character traits of enrol in the Hagios School and the Christ, so they can live their utmost rooms could no longer facilitate for God’s glory. the students. There were no more function rooms available. Although The flame began flickering in his Ps. Suwondo had been living in the heart when he met a pastor who parsonage for more than 17 years, already started his own school. The he freely let go of the parsonage pastor shared the vision of his school and moved out of the church to with Ps. Suwondo when he came give more space for the growing to visit and preach at his church. Slabbert Pretorius and Pastor Samuel school. Realizing that Hagios church had the Julianto Suwondo of Hagios Family church in potential to start a Christian school, This coming academic year, the Yogyakarta he urged Ps. Suwondo to establish a number of students will be around school in the church area. 120 in total, from the Playgroup level up to level 12. As a result the Ps. Suwondo then shared the vision school needs more space. Praise with the congregation. Some parents the Lord that Hagios church fully responded by helping him seek supports the school’s growth by the right curriculum. Ps. Suwondo providing the hall on the third floor desired a different curricula from for Learning Centers. those used by other schools so the future school would contribute more Staff members of Hagios School of Life, in shaping students to know and Yogyakarta. love God. Finally the Accelerated Christian Education curriculum was chosen because it was Bible-based, emphasized Christian character traits training, applied an individual learning system, and aimed for mastery. In 2011, the school started with only nine students, most of them were children of the congregation members. There were only two classes, one for the Kindergarten with Ace and Christi program, the Staff and students of Hagios School of Life together with Anna- other for the elementary level. The Marie and Slabbert Pretorius.
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K-Eduplex and Jakarta SCEE News International University by Luke Yim
Indonesia - Opportunities have been planting numerous and Challenges Islamic schools throughout Indonesia with a clear goal of radicalizing mild Indonesia, the world’s biggest Muslim Muslims and attracting Christian nation, stands strategically as a link that children to their influence. Added college years through Godly programs. connects the South Pacific, Southeast to that, Muslim missionaries receive Included in K-Eduplex are Jakarta Asia and South Asia. It is also the southern substantial political support from International University, Vocational entry point to the 10/40 window, where the local Indonesian government, School, Online Learning Program, and the vast majority of the world’s unreached becoming an unbeatably powerful a K-12 international school that utilizes people groups who have never heard the force. Compared to them, Christian the A.C.E. curriculum. gospel are found. It is evident that God is missionary effort seems small and About a year ago, we came across doing amazing work in Indonesia. Despite relatively unseen, presenting a modern the A.C.E. curriculum and SCEE as we having the biggest Muslim population day fight between David and Goliath. were still on the preparatory phase for in the world, Indonesia also boasts one the university establishment. Upon of the biggest and most rapidly growing Korean Educational reviewing the curriculum, we became Christian communities in Southeast Asia. Complex and Accelerated certain that this curriculum is the key to Christian Education Yet, the Christian missionary effort changing the tide in the clash between Christian and Islamic education in faces a formidable challenge in But just as the shepherd boy David Indonesia; the answer to the prayers of Indonesia today. While many Christian proclaimed before the giant, we Christian missionaries and educators missionaries see the strategic do not fight with “sword”, “spear,” or in Indonesia; and the ultimate weapon importance of Indonesia, so do radical “javelin” but by “God Almighty”. Korean to challenge and defeat the giant. Muslims. There has been a clash of Educational Complex (K-Eduplex) has Without much hesitation, we decided missionary efforts between Christian been a project that has undergone to start a K-12 school using the A.C.E. and Muslim missionaries, and currently years of preparation with the mission of curriculum and further incorporated the main battle arena is in the field of reaching Indonesia for Christ through the A.C.E. educational principles in education. Coming with the enormous education. We endeavor to bring other K-Eduplex programs. financial support from the Middle transformation to the young generation Eastern oil dollars, Muslim educators of Indonesia from kindergarten to Continue to next page. connect10 Indonesia - Opportunities and Challenges
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The Launching of the and various programs for continuing schools using the A.C.E. curriculum. University Project in 2016 in international academic and career We have faith in the A.C.E. program, so opportunities. Students will benefit we have faith in the graduates as well. This coming fall semester in from a rigorous and extensive We believe that these young men and August 2016, “Jakarta International curriculum with an innovative women of God trained in the A.C.E.’s University (JIU)”, the main project of education system and purposeful values will play an indispensable K-Eduplex, is officially launching with learning programs that challenge part in building a godly international its first department – The College them to discover and fulfill their God student community at JIU. We are of Economics. As an international given gifts. Starting with the College of greatly excited about seeing many university, JIU aims to recruit students Economics, JIU will continue to expand A.C.E. graduates from various countries from all over South Pacific and with other key departments such as coming to JIU to learn, pray, and dream Southeast Asia. A multinational team Management, IT, Media, English, Korean together for Christ. JIU waits for you! of dedicated, mission-minded Christian language & Studies, and Southeast For more information please contact jiu. faculty members will educate students Asian Studies. [email protected]. not only with Christian values but also with missionary perspectives. Studying Welcome, A.C.E. at JIU, students will obtain the privilege Graduates! to witness and participate in God’s great ministry in the world’s biggest On that note, JIU’s door is wide Muslim nation, where an exciting race open for the A.C.E. graduates. As a for the cause of Christ is undertaken. starting school, we realize the critical Luke Yim, M. A. (Columbia) importance of recruiting the first tier Principal, Cornerstone Global Academy Committee Member, K-Eduplex Looking at the program development of students well. As an organization Bibliography prospective, JIU plans to offer an endorsing the A.C.E. Christian values, Gunkarta. File: Greater Indonesia Locator. svg[map]. Wikimedia Commons. < https:// intercultural learning environment we see that there is no better place commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Greater_ with an immersive global campus to find prospective students than the Indonesia_Locator.svg>. (2 October 2011).
Page 11 Southern Cross Educational Enterprises Frustrated Learning "I hate maths! "I'm can't sentence - by Carolyn Pearce diagram!" "This is stupid!"
I must admit – I have said all of those temptations; knowing this, that the trying the physical manipulative (the Mars sentences when I was learning at school. of your faith worketh patience. But let Bars) to being able to think through his I did hate maths, I thought sentence patience have her perfect work, that subtraction sums. diagramming was a ridiculous exercise, ye may be perfect and entire, wanting and I was firmly of the opinion that nothing.” Unfortunately, children and I have explained Algebra in funny voices, having to do my PACE work was a stupid teenagers don’t have that life experience diagrammed sentences in many different waste of my time. and can become fixated on their colours (verbs are red – don’t ask me frustration to the point that they assume why, but they are), and re-enacted Now that I am an adult, I cannot tell you all learning is frustrating and not worth historical moments with students who how many times I have heard students the effort. So what can we do to help? were experiencing frustration with their – big, small, just starting out and those learning. There is always a solution to the about to finish – utter similar statements. First, understand what is causing the source of the frustration – it just takes I have heard countless testimonies from frustration. Ask why – why do you hate time and effort to investigate. Don’t allow parents who are frustrated by their your maths? Why can’t you sentence their frustration to become a source of children’s frustration and at a loss as to diagram? Why is this stupid? Make sure irritation for you – take a deep breath, how they can offer encouragement that your tone is gentle and sincere. And listen. count to 10, and then get on with helping is not going to be rejected as ‘Mum’s just You may need to prompt them to explain the child discover the joy of learning even saying that because she wants me to why they are feeling frustrated and it may when it is difficult. finish my work.’ (Insert much eye-rolling not be something that they can always and sighs of frustrations here.) articulate. So be gentle and use wisdom. Finally, don’t forget to pray. Pray for the child who is frustrated that God Frustration with learning is a common Second, invest time with them. You are will help you discern what is causing issue for everyone. Everyone, at some teaching them the invaluable virtue the frustration. Pray with the child that point in their life, has experienced of perseverance – this takes time and God would help them to find a creative frustration. Think about your last energy. Think outside the box. Try solution to the problem causing the learning experience – did you experience different things. I remember when I frustration. Pray for yourself that God frustration? Now think about why. Was it was at school, my mother (who was would give you wisdom and discernment because you didn’t understand what you also my supervisor) had a student who as you help the child to learn. were learning or that you didn’t really passionately hated their math PACE want to be there? If we as adults become because the process of subtraction Frustration left unchecked frustrated with the processes of learning, frustrated them and they felt that it didn’t how much more might our children find make sense. She tried counting sticks, becomes bitterness. this difficult? using the ruler, doing physical groups – Frustration given direction and none of these things worked. Then provides an opportunity for So what is the solution? Should we she tried Mars Bars – they would do the life-long learning. throw away all those things that cause us sums with Mars Bars and stories… ‘If you frustration? Of course not! have 6 Mars Bars (he counted out six Mars Bars and held them) and you decide to As adults we have the life-experience give 3 to George, how many Mars Bars to know that while the learning can would you have? (He would take his six be frustrating, the reward of greater Mars Bars, count out the three he was knowledge and understanding is worth giving to ‘George’, and then count out the effort of enduring the momentary how many were left). And the time and frustration. This is a Biblical principle effort invested in this student began to found in James 1:2-4 “My brethren, pay off. He soon graduated from needing count it all joy when ye fall into divers connect12 Southern Cross Educational Enterprises
A.C.E. What it means to me By Ray Barzyk
In early 1980, when I finished my time. One from September 1987, accepting a position tertiary studies, I began looking for captures these feelings. “Australia with A.C.E. Australia work. Full-time Christian ministry really now has 80 schools operating under a in 1993. She worked wasn’t on my mind at the time and I Bible-based curriculum that is taught with the many was considering an offer to work in to 4000 pupils” runs the sub-title of families that chose the Shire Council Office. Then I was the article. And another states, “One home-schooling as offered work with a Christian literature of the most rapidly growing sectors the path for their children. Both Roslyn distributor. After consideration and of Australian school education is the and I shared a conviction about the prayer, I decided the Christian ministry small, Bible-based Christian schools”. quality of the ACE material. We married path was my calling. Such was the strength of conviction in 2000. Now that so much time has and the desire to have a God-honouring passed, we enjoy looking at the fruits My association with A.C.E. goes back to educational programme to undergird of the programme. In particular, it 1981 when the distribution centre was the development of future generations is encouraging to hear about A.C.E. relocated from Sydney to Brisbane. At of Christian children. graduates who have done well in the time, I was working as an inventory tertiary study and the workplace. It control and warehouse assistant. I This was the background in which is also very encouraging to notice vividly remember the sight of several I was immersed as a worker in the that quite a few graduates start their semi-trailer loads of PACEs coming ministry. I was content to be part children on A.C.E.. Student Convention into our warehouse and progressively of the “help-ministry” ensuring the has been a good place to see young being moved to our bulging mezzanine schools were well supplied with the people displaying their skills and their and floor shelving. The use of A.C.E. resources they needed. It felt good Christian character. had already been well-established that we were partnering with church- through-out Australia by this time based schools that were standing In these latter days when thanks to the vision and hard work against the increasing secularisation the pressure on schools and of its early pioneers. It really was an trends of the day. Then an opportunity families is still present, I enjoy exciting time for this ministry with arose to be more directly involved by using my knowledge and many church-based schools established helping to write nationalised Social experience to help where across the country. What was the Studies units. Having a history and I can. Although I am not a common denominator amongst these research background, it gave me a deep teacher and have no children schools? It was a firm conviction that sense of satisfaction in writing fifteen of my own, it is pleasing that spiritual and character development units which were used to counter the God has allowed me to play of children needed to occupy a place persistent criticism that the curriculum a part in this ministry. I can of equal prominence with academic was overly American. see that A.C.E. has impacted rigour. A.C.E. with its unique, self- on thousands of young lives The biggest blessing of all, was the fact instructional, individualistic approach and am thankful for the that I met my wife in the context of this designed to allow students to proceed opportunity I have been given ministry. Roslyn had worked as an A.C.E. at their natural learning level, offered to participate. the right answer to these schools. Supervisor in a Sydney-based school for The growth in schools using these twelve resources continued through-out the years 80s and did not escape the attention before of the wider community and media. I have kept on file a few newspaper articles which reflect the enthusiasm and conviction of Christians at the
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On the night of February 20th, 2016 Fiji hardware shop vouchers, school bag people are continuing to build their was hit by a category 5 cyclone. Most packs, etc. What touched our hearts lives back. Schools are almost back to parts of Fiji were wiped out. 42 lives most was that school buildings were normal, but the fear and trauma of the were lost, many were injured. People destroyed. Children had nowhere to night of 20th of February will remain in lost their house, all their belongings, go to school to. Those affected by the every Fijian’s heart. Although the other livestock, you name it, was gone. cyclone were still in trauma. Fijian half of Fiji was not directly affected, we Weeks after Cyclone Winston, we had people are known by their smiles. all had some damage to our properties. another natural disaster and this time Amidst all these they were smiling. The building process continues in terms it was flooding everywhere around Fiji, Whenever we handed them supplies, of counseling people and other related especially the low lying areas. People they would smile and say processes. who were living in tents and temporary “vinaka.” Everyone was trying to shelters again lost everything. get their lives back slowly.
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