Wow! 180 international students!

What a wonderful month we had in Harpenden, England, with Johanneke and Jonathan and their three girls. It was so good to be able to be together again on Johanneke's birthday, she turned 40! It was such a pleasure to spend a few weeks with their beautiful family again.
 

In the studio

Jonathan had already invited us several times to record our teachings on children at risk in his studio, so that later, we can put them on our website and thus have another way to offer our seminar. Therefore, thirteen lessons were professionally recorded in front of a green screen. Jonathan and Johanneke are now busy editing them.
 

 

YWAM Ukraine

We also received an invitation to teach the seventy missionaries on staff with YWAM Ukraine, about helping the traumatized parents and children. That became possible through a lesson via Zoom, together with a Ukrainian translator, who was also in Harpenden, England that same week!
 

With our Ukrainian translator

180 international students

Right now, we are preparing the two online courses that we will be giving this year. We have a total of over 180 students and over 30 facilitators from 37 different countries! The courses will run from April to November. Well, that will keep us busy!

It is great to see that so many students have signed up to learn how to work with children in need, and that so many facilitators are willing to join forces, so each will take a group of 6 students under their wing and accompany the students personally.

Mothers and children with trauma

After our trip to England, we spent two weeks in Bulgaria where we were invited to give a seminar in Varna, on the Black Sea. There, a few thousand Ukrainian refugees, mostly mothers with their children, live in hotels which are not being used for tourists during the winter. We were invited to teach a small group of them (30 women) some practical steps on how to help their own children deal with the traumas they suffered from the war. It is now the intention that some of these women continue with this material, to teach it to other mothers, so that many more children can be helped.
 

Prayer points

Please, will you pray for these women and children, and of course for so many other Ukrainian families in and outside Ukraine. It is such a terrible tough time for them.

Would you also pray for the online seminars we will be giving from April to November? That the Lord may use these classes to build up and encourage the many students and facilitators? So that many children will be reached with His love?

Blessings and love!