Education & Literacy
A. Sunday School Program- Within our Sunday School lessons we are including basic literacy training for the youth in each class.
B. Public Library- We have started a community library and have trained 9 young women to work in the library to increase literacy. Our library contains books in English, Tok Pisin, and Ap Ma. We would like to see story hours, book clubs and more printed material in Ap Ma in the near future.
Translation
A. *Assist Maso in finishing his work- By releasing him from his obligations to maintain the tractor and airstrip and assisting him financially to care for his family he has more time to spend on the translation. We also try to help him by typing his finished drafts.
B. Creating other literacy materials Children's books etc.- We hope to eventually create a preschool curriculum for the Ap Ma tok ples complete with local stories and small books.
* This was not in our initial plans, however, due to circumstances beyond our control we feel this is now a necessary part of our ministry.
