Harare Centre of Excellence 2010 Highlights
24 December 2010
Grassroots Gleanings
As we start the new year, we praise God for His grace, purpose, provision and protection through a wonderful yet tumultuous year. There have been so many challenges, blessings and advances in 2010, and we praise Him that there is change in the air. We feel that He has been preparing us and setting the platform for an amazing year in 2011.
A few highlights from 2010
The Ministry of Agriculture for the first time embraced Foundations for Farming and asked us to teach 4,000 agricultural extension officers. Many prisons invited us to teach them again,
and they managed to plant on time! The schools project took off with 116 teachers from five districts being trained. The Trumpet Call initiative saw a semblance of unity as the three main church bodies came together.
On the international front
For the first time, two Foundations for Farming Champions Conferences were held in Malawi and South Africa. There was also an invitation to write a weekly column in Farmers Weekly (South Africa).
We are grateful to the Lord for all that He has done, and look forward to another year of being used by Him!
Grassroots Trainers of the Month
Meet Merit Muchinhairi (right)
Merit’s mission is to do everything to the best of her ability. Merit is a gifted trainer, who as well as training outsiders, also trains our Trainees/Apprentices in-house. In December she spent a lot of time assessing the trainees as they taught on Well Watered Gardens (WWG’s).
She also spent a week in Chegutu at Ameva Farm, working alongside the farmer workers as they set up a Foundations for Farming model site.
The rest of her time was taken up with planting here at the station. Well Watered Gardens planted in 2010.
Meet Letson Kachoronga (below)
Letson’s passion is to see the poor coming out of poverty, he loves to share the gospel, reaching the unreached.
In December Letson didn’t do much in terms of training, but travelled a lot in and around Harare planting WWG’s, as well as monitoring fields of people who had been trained in Foundations for Faming.
His highlight of the month was the teaching he received on discipleship. He says, ‘I now know that it is not only about evangelism, but people need to be discipled too.’