Launch Pad

In the afternoon, we went to another school to meet with kids and see how the program called Launch Pad works.  This is another after school program where learners, and people who are out of school, come to learn more about the Bible and Christianity.  These are taught by the interns (young people who come to Thrive and live there for 11 months, immersing themselves in missions) and are open to anyone who wishes to participate.  It is usually attended by those who are still in school, but they have had older adults come as well.  Some of the courses they teach are “Ordinary Day with Jesus,” “Love, Sex, and Relationships”, Becoming a Contagious Christian,” and more.  It was exciting to see the learners gathered there to learn more about the Bible.  This class was called, “Digging Deep,” which is a study of the Old Testament. 

Here are some pictures of Launch Pad.  This class is held in a school room that Jennifer obtained last year from the school.  This was a vacant room, so Jenn and others from Thrive cleaned it and removed junk from it, and it is now there room to use whenever they want to.  Again, something that doesn’t happen in America.  The last three pictures included here are of the fence around the school.  It seemed that all the schools had razor barbed wire around the school property.  You can see the neighbor's garden through the fence in one of the pictures.