Every need and every problem presents an opportunity. One of our Emmaus Regional Coordinators is surrounded by hundreds of remote villages in rural farming areas. Children in these villages have no access to educational opportunities. One village chief pleaded with Pastor Banda to return and educate their children. He explained that without education, their children had no future.

Discipleship Training in Action

The graduates of our Emmaus Bible study program are generally very enthusiastic about applying what they have learned. Some choose to operate Bible Centers from their home, where they invite friend and neighbors to become students of the Bible, as they mentor and encourage them. Others employ their new knowledge and skills as teachers and leaders in their churches. Some feel compelled to go back to their villages as missionaries and teach the Gospel to their people.

Called to Teach

Ten of our Emmaus graduates with an academic background have agreed to move back to five of these villages and start primary schools for the children. Our Emmaus Bible study material is also an important part of the curriculum, so the children are receiving a Christian education as well as basic literacy and math skills.

Christian Education for Village Children

While our primary focus is on discipleship training, we are ever mindful of the struggle of day-to-day living in developing nations.  Most families can tell you that education is the only means for their children  to escape a lifetime of poverty.  Jericho Road Ministries is supporting the development of schools in five remote villages, where children would otherwise have no opportunity for education. All of our teachers are graduates of the Emmaus Bible Study program and use the courses as a basis for religious instruction in the schools.

What better way to make disciples than to start with the very young before they are indoctrinated with Muslim  and tribal religious traditions. Muslims are very willing to provide schools which teach only the Koran.

In our first school, the response was so great that we had to divide the 115 students into morning and afternoon shifts. Word of the school spread rapidly throughout the villages and we had many requests for more schools. The program rapidly expanded to 5 schools with 525 students and dozens more can be added as resources are available.

Financial needs

FACILITIES – Local communities constructed classrooms from logs, sticks, mud bricks and thatched roofs at no expenses other than their labor. They are now fabricating mud bricks for a more permanent structure with a metal roof. Funds are needed for cement mortar and metal roofing sheets.

TEACHERS – Each of the 5 schools have two teachers. They receive a gift of $40 per month for their service

.                                                                                               Total needed – $400/mo.

SCHOOL SUPPLIES – $50 per month per school.       Total needed – $250/mo.

STUDENT MEALS – $60 per month per school.          Total needed – $300/mo.

TRANSPORTATION –                                                         Total needed – $50/mo.

Total cost per month -            $1,000

Monthly cost per school             $200

Monthly cost per student               $2

There are many additional services that could be provided, such as medical screening, vaccinations, nutritional supplements, wheel chairs for the disabled, and of course many more schools are needed. The national department of education has given official recognition of these schools, but no funding is available.

Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” Matthew 19:14

What Can You Do?

We earnestly pray for individuals and organizations to sponsor one or more schools at $200 per month. An alternative would be to provide scholarships for 10, 25 or 50 students at $20, $50 or $100 per month.

All contributions are tax deductible and each donor will receive a year end receipt for all contributions. For more information about the Village Schools, go to   Discipleship Training in Africa

Donations may be made through our web site at Donate Online. Payments can be made from any major credit or debit card. PayPal users may also use a checking or savings account. This is a secure web site.

Donations may also be made by direct mail to :

Jericho Road Ministries

PO BOX 3067

Longview, Texas 75606