Saturday Tutoring

Saturdays are one of my favorite days of the week. One of Love's Door's focuses is education. There are approximately 55-60 kids sponsored to go to school through Love's Door. A requirement as part of the sponsorship program for the kids living out here in the village is that they come to tutoring on Saturday mornings. This includes 1 hour of small group tutoring and 1 hour of discipleship time. It has become quite a program! 

Here's what the schedule looks like: 

9:00-10:00 The first tutoring group comes through. We have around 20 kids during this time slot broken up into 6 different tutoring groups. 

10:00-11:00 Approximately all 45 sponsored kids from the village attend discipleship time. This hour is open to any village kid, whether sponsored or not. The kids under 12 stay together and it is sort of like Sunday school. We study a Bible story together, sing some songs, play games, and sometimes do crafts. The girls and boys over 12 break into gender specific groups and talk about purity, what it means to be a godly man or woman, and play games together. 

11:00-12:00 The second tutoring group comes through. We have around 25 kids during this time slot with 6 different tutoring groups. 

Sometimes it makes for a crazy morning, but I love tutoring. The students I work with are in a range of grades from 3-7. We spend time working on math, reading, and writing. It has been amazing to see my students grow and improve. When I started with these students last year, some of them could not yet read. I've had 4 new students join me throughout the year as they've received a sponsor, so it has been interesting to watch them try to catch up to some of my other students. I still have a few who struggle to read, but we are working on it. We've also been trying to master skip counting by different numbers to help with multiplication facts. 

As you feel led, pray for this program. Pray that the Love's Door tutors would be able to make a difference and impact these kids on Saturday mornings both academically and spiritually. Pray that these students would be able to continue their education even up through college. I know only a handful of villagers who have even been through high school. Pray that these kids would be educated and rise up as leaders in their communities. I see so much potential in many of these kids.