Thank you for your prayers! We delivered on a remarkable training for the Presbyterian Community Based Orphan Care Center directors and teachers. It was one amazing day after another. There is no way to explain the spirit of the training, the fullness of the learning, nor the events that transpired except for the presence of God. And our recognition ceremony on Friday was filled with joy and a spirit of great accomplishment for the participants and all of us trainers (Mary O’Neill, Tisu Mwanza, Gladys Mnunkha Banda and I).

Mary O’Neill (Montessori preschool owner and leader in organizational empowerment) brought a much needed leadership, accountability, vision casting and team building aspect to the Montessori training and leadership development workshop. I redesigned the presentations for all the Montessori academic areas for greater application and accountability. We had each center create a mission statement page called “Mission Statement- This is What We Believe” for each section we presented. They completed the workshop with 10 + pages ( to hang on their center walls) explaining what they are committed to in teaching children, health and safety, communication, curriculum design and planning, management, etc. We requested a high level of participation in our week and we gave the center directors a list of actions to complete by our center visits on Feb 10th & 11th.

We have been approached to present and work with other teaching staffs and community based orphan care center staffs. We are all praying about the direction God wants to take this.

Our school is growing and we are out of room! The electricity has been going out this week and because we are inside the building it is very dark so we operate with candles. We are praying about what is next for the Malawi Montessori Project School and Teacher Training Center. We are waiting on God. There are many things He is saying about the future of the Malawi Montessori Project but I am waiting on Him to confirm the direction we are to take. Psalm 62: 1-2 More details next week for sure. Have great pics from the outstanding week, but cannot put them up for some reason! Next blog will just be pics. Love, Maribeth