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After checking out the Kalvaria school, the representative from the inspectorate requested a meeting wit Pastor Ransome, founder of the school. At the meeting we were congratulated for the bold attempt at the task of bringing school to the door- steps of the hamlet children. He asked us not to relent but to continue the good work to see the school grow from its present stage into a full grown school. He offered the assistance of his department to give on the spot training sessions to our teachers. He advised us to put into place a comprehensive christian training program for the kids because the school is initially registered as a comfessional school. He said this training will bring more positive changes into the lives of the kids. He advised us to work seriously towards getting textbooks for the children which the parents could hire for their wards at very low prices as the economic position of the parents are very low.

Ofcourse we are encouraged by the pronouncements of the man and I said so to him. Visitors to the site can give us their opinions, advises etc

11/23/2008 6:48:55 PM - 001022954052
What a wonderful way for you to share your updates with all of us!!!  Much love to you, your family, our your congregation!!  Matt, Erika, Madelyn, and Charlie

11/12/2008 3:51:25 AM - 002039856280

Pastor Tomety and Family!

 

It was so good to hear from you and we want you to know that we think about you and pray for your often.  We hope your family is well and look forward to the time we get to come back and visit.  We know that God will give us that opportunity again and our waiting on him!  You are in our thoughts and prayers - keep up your good work.

 

Love,

 

Robin & Lauren

11/6/2008 6:02:24 PM - 002035372465
The alleluia family in its modest way aims at bringing positive changes into the communities in which she works. The tools at our disposal include the word of God, our time, our expertise in one or two commercial activities and a lot of goodwill from our parteners who also see the need to bring value into the lives of our rural folks. Our target group is the village kid who we want to send to school before their parents send them to farm the land. We want to give special attention to the girls seeing the sorry sort in which the traditions of the village has put their mothers. Finally our litracy drive targets the men and their wives whiles we will be working in patnership with others to raise the economic standing of the women to make them more independent so they can help in the education of their children.

Pastor Ransome

1/16/2009 1:52:03 AM - 002039856280

2/23/2009 11:31:02 AM - okc4him@...

4/17/2009 10:17:02 AM - 002035372465

5/28/2009 6:40:02 PM - 002062745342

This is good but it is also good to specified what God has for the Church that time whlies we pray for other things.

10/21/2009 12:07:03 PM - 002035372465
A 2-man team from the local prefectoral Inspectorate of Schools visited the Kalvaria school at Badougbe October 20th 2009. The visit is in fulfillment of a promise made last year during a verification  tour of the school by the team to help train the volonteer teachers of the school. The team spent time observing the newly engaged teachers dispense lessons to the pupils. They also taught some lessons for the newcommers to observe. At the close of the morning session, they took the teachers through some new methodologies in the teaching industry. They also took them through the administrative aspect of their work. Later, at a meeting with Pastor Ransome, they impressed upon him the need for providing adequate teaching tools and equipment for the teachers to effectively do their job. They expressed satisfaction at the infrastructural development going on at the school and the increase in the intake of pupils.
 
In reply, Pastor Ransome thanked them for their visit and asked them to continue making such moves to keep the teachers on their toes. He promised to continue searching for resources for the development of the school both physically and academically.
 
 

he kalvaria school (École Primaire Baptiste Kalvaria) reopened for the 2009/2010 school year September 21^st with 155 children from kindergarten to primary 5.  The school closed the previous year with 125 children. The P5 class is a progression from last year’s P4 class.  Two teachers left the school for ‘greener pastures’ whiles three new ones were engaged.

s custom, a meeting which brought together the parents of the kids, teachers, well wishers and the school management board took place October 6^th to discuss the challenges that will face the school this school year. At the meeting, the performance of the school up-to-date was reviewed whiles expectations for the current year previewed.

he discussions were very brisk and businesslike.   The parents complained about the seeming high teacher turn over in the school, saying it will have adverse effect on the academic performance of their children. They deplored the disunity among the teachers the previous year which tended to breed indiscipline during the year and urged the new staff to do better.

n their part, whiles promising to give out a better output this year, the head teacher asked the parents to promptly provide their part of school materials that they will need to do their work. He deplored the attitude of parents who still send their children to the farm thus increasing pupil absenteeism in the school. He complained that a sizable number of kids still come to school without provision for food and that the children can’t learn on empty stomach. This, he said made the morbidity among the kids very high during the previous year and affected their overall performance.

rs Kekeli Damessi, an administrator of the school urged the women to take active interest in the education of their children as these children will come to take care of them in their old age seeing they ( the women) are generally in a weaker position in their society than their male counterparts. She called on the parents to make birth certificates for their children at birth as it is easier and less expensive then. She wanted them to ensure that those of their older children without birth certificates be issued with one through the judiciary early so as to forestall the situation where the would have to rush to do so when their children go for their certificate exams.

astor Ransome, in his presentation, advised the parents to collaborate closely with the teachers and school administrators to make the Kalvaria school project succeed and make it a reference point in similar projects in other farm settlements like theirs. He agreed with them that the times are hard, seeing that this year is the third consecutive year of poor harvest in the area due to erratic rainy season. He however asked them to still make the education of their children a high priority because that is the surest way of eradicating poverty in their community. He emphasised the importance of girl child education and pleaded with them not to encourage the dropping-out of school of these girls. He informed the parents that this year, the school will introduce basic bible study in the school curriculum, reminding them that the school aims at giving wholesome education to their kids. He read out to them an elaborated set of rules and regulations that will govern activities at the school from this year onwards. This regulations, he said will be respected by teachers, pupils and infact everyone who does any business in or with the school.

he pastor drew their attention to the infrastructure development of the school which saw on-going work being done on the second classroom block comprising two classrooms. He urged them to continue being watchdogs for the protection and safety of the facilities being provided so it will be around for their future generations to benefit from. He informed them that the financial situation of the school is still precarious as the fees they pay for the education of their children is a far cry from the actual cost of running the school and that the school administration is still searching from help from outside. He said the financial situation of the school is partly the cause of the high turn over of teachers in the school as they are employed as volunteers for lack of finances to pay them real wages. This he said also caused the perceived problems among the teachers last year.

he meeting closed with a promise to reconvene October 15^th to elect a parents association committee to work with the teachers for the next two years.

Attachments:

 

he École Primaire Baptiste ‘Kalvaria’ closed its doors for the 2008/2009 academic year on July 9^th 2009. The day was marked with festive activities that saw the children performing theatre poetry recitals and folkloric dances to entertain the crowd which was made up of their parents and older brothers and sisters from the farm settlements. Each of the children put on his or her best dress for the occasion.

he program for the day included an end of year parent /teacher association meeting to review the activities of the school.  During this meeting, the parents were urged to take the schooling of their children serious enough to play their part as partners with the teachers in the smooth running of the school. In his report to the gathering, Pastor Ransome Tomety, Founder of the school announced that the school will progress from classes four to five next school year.

e said come next year, the classes one and two will have their own classrooms for themselves instead of this year ending where they had to share the same classroom. He said the 4HIM is continuing to help finance the infrastructural development of the school and that by the commencement of the next school year, a new two – classroom block is expected to be in habitable condition to decongest the primary one and two classes and house the class five pupils. He asked all the school’s well wishers to pray for the 4HIM and other sponsors to attract donors to help, not only in the infrastructural development, but also in other areas, especially the payment of the school teaching staff. He said the Alleluia Bakery which has until now been paying the salaries of the teachers and providing school desks and teaching materials and textbooks to the school will continue doing so as long as business is good at the bakery. In this vain, the bakery is planning to provide school desks for the two new classrooms when completed and supply some more textbooks to augment the existing ones.

astor Ransome told the parents that the Mission Baptiste de will also continue supporting the school. This year they provided scholarships for four pupils and they will continue this project by providing the same facility to six pupils next year.

he pastor said though this year the school did not participate actively in the inter-schools sporting activities, plans are afoot to let the school be fully represented in these activities next year.

n farming activities, he said the school have hired an acre of land on which the pupils, under the direction of their teachers have cultivated corn beans and the local cassava plant. Some mango trees have been planted on the school compound whiles Moringa trees were planted along the northern boarders of the school.

ater the head teacher of the school Mr Jean Houmkpey gave a report on the academic performance of the pupils.  He said the school started the year with 157 pupils but this figure dropped to a final 125 due to transfers and some pupils leaving the area. Out of the 125, only 99 pupils took the end of year promotion tests. The rest could not pay their school fees (approximately $4 per year) so did not take part in the exams, according to the rules and regulations of the school.

ut of the 99 pupils that took the tests, 71 pupils representing 74% passed and will be promoted to their superior classes next year. He exhorted the parents to co operate with the teachers for the proper academic training of their children as that is their responsibility to ensure a bright future for the kids. He deployed the attitude of parents who send their children to the farm when they are sent home to bring their school fees. He advised the elder brothers and sisters of the pupils that are in higher schools elsewhere to follow-up the schoolwork of their younger ones in the home to complement what the teacher has done in the classroom.

 Party was organised for all the pupils, irrespective of whether they did their tests, passed them or not. After the party the test result slips were distributed to them. Those that were successful were congratulated whiles the less lucky were encouraged to do better next year. Parents whose children could not participate in the promotion exams for lack of payment of school fees were exhorted to be more responsible toward their children and ensure that next year their children go through the school year without any setback. All the pupils who were top of their classes, the pupil with the best character and the youngest kid in the school were given a one -year scholarship by the Mission Baptist de

he president of the Parents association, in his address thanked the authorities of the school, the 4HIM and all well wishers of the school project for the good work being done and promised they will also do their best to do their part of the partnership.

he next school year is expected to start next September.

 

 

 

It was two years ago on Pentecost day. We had just gone through a well attended three-hour worship service. The sermon was on the protective power over the children of God. Unlike previous sundays; after worship, within the next 10 minutes, almost everyone rushed out of the church compound to get home early because the sky had darkened without warning and it was evident that it can start raining at any moment. Left behind in the temple, were seventeen of us, eleven adults and six kids between two years and six months. I was conducting counselling whiles others were putting some other things in other before they also leave for their homes. Very soon the rain started with a drizzle.

This was how things was when suddenly there was a sharp wind that made everyone sat up. Some who had their children playing away from them went to bring them near themselves. Though, the pillars of the temple were made of timber fastened into the ground, we never felt we were in any danger of the temple coming down on us. There was a lady undergoing counselling at the time who excused herself and went to get hold of her six month baby and fastened her on her back with a tissue(that is the normal practice here in Africa)  I had also stood up from my table to go interact with some of those present.

In another five minutes, there was another sharp wind but this time the strength was so great that the whole structure heaved to the direction of the wind. This time everyone realised we were not safe in the temple and on the spur of the moment, everyone did something to either get out or protect him or herself but within a time space of six seconds, the whole structure came down on us! We did not know what happened next, but I found myself outside the temple. Looking behind I saw that the woman I was counselling was trying to come out through a window by which she had been sitting and she was stuck halfway in the window with her baby bound at her back. I rush to her and dragged her and the baby out to safety. I saw that six of us adults had, one way or the other got out. The rest were under the wreck. We realised that the ends of the roof has been displaced about three meters but had fallen on the row of benches that had just been vacated by worshippers. The apex of the roofing had also correspondingly moved from its position to another position but miraculously its new position was the spot that those trapped under were gathered with the little kids.

Those of us outside had to find an opening back under the crumbled temple to see what had happened to those under and were relieved to see them hustled together under the apex of the roof. If the apex had come just a few centimetres lower, they would have been crushed under it. The woman whom I dragged out would also be crushed with her baby at the back. We later realised that it was the alter stand made of timber, on which the roof fell, that prevented the apex from going down any further. The benches on which the ends of the roofing fell were also of strong redwood. They would have given way under the weight of the roofing if they were made of any cheaper material.

The miracle

The real miracle of the day was that when we checked ourselves, nobody among us had as much as a scratch on the body. Not an ‘iota’ of blood of anyone touched the ground or was seen. None of us needed any massaging, not even the kids!

 In a nearby farm, the local Methodist pastor who had come to visit the farm after church service and who was also caught unawares by the rain was the first to get to the site after the incident. He said normally he sees our temple from his farm but was surprised that at a time, he could not see the temple. He did not immediately realised that the temple had crumbled under the pressure of the winds but latter it just dawned on him that something had happened so he intuitively ran to the site. When he arrived at the site we had then all return under the ‘protection of the apex of the roof’ and because he could not fathom how we could be alive under the debris, he started lamenting aloud about the accident until we called out to him that we were safe under the wreck. Just after him, a member of the church, who was among those that left earlier, but who left behind his wife and two kids among us also came running back to check the safety of his family. He also went through the same scenario of the Methodist pastor. He and the pastor joined us to praise the Good Lord when he also came to see the miracle that He has done for us.

The lessons of the event

The greatest lesson we learnt from the events of Pentecost day May 2007 was that God loves His children. We also learnt that the child of God should be ready at all times as the call to come home can be without any prior warning apart from the warnings the Word of God gives . We discerned that God was speaking not only to those of us that went through these emotions, but also the whole of the church at Badougbe  (and all children of God near and far that comes across this testimony).

As we remember the event two years later, we are still thanking the Lord for giving us another lease of life to continue working in His vineyard. We are praying that He anoints us abundantly with His Spirit so we can be effective in His employ. We ask in Jesus name, Amen.

 

0n Sunday 28^th of May 1989, the 1^st church service was conducted at Badougbe in the VO prefecture of the Maritime Region of Togo to mark the birth of the Badougbe church. The church was originally called ‘Eglise Baptiste de la Delivrance.’ Today, she is called the New Jerusalem church and is part of Mission Baptiste de la Delivrance.

The Mission Baptiste de la Delivrance has three other churches in namely: ‘La Revelation’, ‘Hopelight’ and ‘Kalvaria’. Recently, a new church was started in , by the name, God’s Mission Solution centre which will work as an affiliate of the church.

The mission started a school in the hamlet settlements of Badougbe to help fight the high incident of illiteracy and child labour in the area. The school, which is in the 1^st cycle stage and hopes to grow into 3^rd cycle educational set up. It is being built in collaboration with 4HIM of .

The 20^th anniversary was marked with prayer sessions throughout the churches of the mission. As this year’s anniversary also falls in the week of Pentecost, the occasion was used to hold seminars on the Holly Spirit. On Pentecost day which fell on 31^st May, Pastor Ransome, founder of the mission gave a sermon on ‘THE PENTECOST AS A FEAST OF NEW GRAIN’

In the sermon, he traced the origin of the Pentecost feast to the Jewish new grain feast which is the second of the three major agricultural feasts of the people of God. He said this feast follows an earlier one called the First Fruits Feast which is basically an occasion that the Jews bring their first fruits to the priest to be waved before God in thanksgiving for an anticipated harvest.(Leviticus 23: 10-11, 15-16) He said first fruits are normally devoured by farmers especially if it followed a long period of drought. He said though first fruits satiate our extreme starvation caused by prolonged droughts, the actual food security comes when the first fruits spur us on to bring in the harvest of new grains. The advent of the new grain is expected to give us adequate strength to continue bringing in the totality of the harvest, drying or treating them and finally putting them in the silos, which corresponds with the 3rd Jewish feast called the Feast of Tabernacles.(Leviticus 23:39-40)

The pastor went back into the bible to draw the relationship between the feast of the Jewish people and Christianity. He quoted 1^st Corinthians 15:20 and said Jesus is the first fruit of those that will abandon dearth to inherit eternal life. He said Jesus’ advent into the world in flesh was at a time the whole world was experiencing apostasy and there was a great drought of truth, justice and all that goes with it. Jesus’ three-year ministry on earth satiated the many years of the people’s starvation of truth, justice and health, both spiritual and physical. But as satiating as first fruits are, the time comes when we need to progress from that period to that of the new grains that would give us strength to bring in its totality and stock it to ensure long term food security. He illustrated this point with the story in the bible in which Jesus, seeing the crowd lamented that there were not enough labourers. He said the next thing He did after making that observation was to chose some disciples and  empower them for the job (Mathew 9:35-10:1). In the same way, His three-year ministry was going to bring in plenty harvest, the harnessing of which would require energy (power) so when His time on earth was coming to an end, He promised to send down the Holy Spirit who would empower us to bring in the full harvest to be put into the silos of God. (John 14:16-18, 16: 7-11, Acts 1:8) He said the coming down of the Holy Spirit at the time the Jews were celebrating the feast of new grains (which has come to be known as Pentecost because it is celebrated fifty days after the first fruits) is not a coincidence. God in His wisdom was drawing us to the harvest that Jesus saw when He was here in the flesh and wants us to be empowered so we can not only bring in the new grains, but also dry an treat them so they can be put into His barns.

Pastor Ransome finally talked about the dangers of working without power. He likened the former times when we were in the world and under Satan’s control, as our periods of drought. He said, then, our lives were a pity, characterised by unfulfilled dreams, uncompleted projects, inability to defend our rights and the selling off of our precious assets cheap to shylocks to whom we had sold ourselves and who insisted on claiming their pound of flesh from us.(see Romans 6:15-20, 7:5 ) When we come to Christ, we have become the harvest and at the same time the potential labourers in the cornfields.

The Holy Spirit, who made us the harvest of God when He gave us birth into the family of God, is now in town to empower us to become labourers in His vineyard. In other words, the new grain has come to give us energy to bring in the rest of the grains, and make it ready for the silos.  We are invited to ask for the Spirit and are assured He will be given to us. Our inability to benefit from the power of the Holy Spirit is foolhardiness because we risk remaining in our weakened state in this world where Satan is branding his powers about!

Pastor ransome paid a vsit to the Togo offices of the UNICEF to discuss the possibility of a feeding program for the kids at the Kalvaria school. He met two charming senior officials of the department that handles education. These ladies were very much moved by the plight of the kids but realised the handicap of criteria under which their department works.
1. The school is a confessional school as against a public or goverment one which UNICEF officially deals with.
2. The UNICEF - TOGO currently has no feeding program running.
They however agreed that there are other ways the UNICEF could help the school achieve its educational goals if it falls into the criteria by which the organisation works.
They promised their personnel would call on us anytime they are in the area of the geographical location of the school to see things for themselves. They will also continue exploring their facilities and if their is any way in the future that the UNICEF can help the school, they will only be glad to do so.

Pastor Ransome

4HIM VISIT TO .

The 4HIM sent a team on a fact finding mission to from January 30^th to February 3^rd 2009. The team comprised 4HIM president, Steve Hollingsworth, Chance Jackson, 4HIM Oklahoma city, Pastor Abraham S. Conteh, 4HIM Sierra Leone, Pastor M.S.Emess, 4HIM Sierra Leone and Pastor Kenneth Amuzu who is in charge of 4HIM activities in Ghana and who is also coordinator of 4HIM microfinance projects in Togo.

Though the programme of the trip was very tight, the team had a full day to visit the Alleluia family ministries. This aspect of their visit took them to see and interact with some beneficiaries of the 4HIM microfinance project. They were taken round the facilities at the Alleluia bakery. They also inspected some vegetable gardens near alleluiakope. The team was later taken across the river in a canoe, to Badougbe where they visited more microloan recipients. At Badougbe they visited the church where they inspected on-going work on a temple to replace the old one that had been blown off by a storm.

The last stop of the team was at the Kalvaria school where the team had to give 1^st aid treatment to one of the little kids who apparently was having some acute seizures due to dehydration. Latter, the team interacted with the pupils and their teachers. Steve, in a talk to the pupils reassured them that they have a special place in the hearts of his wife Nancy and daughter Leia who are also teachers and take care of kids like them. They and also 4HIM and its sympathisers who know about them pray for them regularly. He urged them to pray for their parents to play an active role in ensuring the success of the school as it is their future which is at stake.

Another member of the team who talked to the pupils was Pastor Abraham. He also told them stories of their school work in Sierra Leone.

The head teacher of the school, Jean Tsevi Houmkpey thanked the 4HIM for its support in the creation of the school but gave a catalogue of challenges facing the school. These range from inadequate classrooms to the inability of the parents to sufficiently discharge their parental responsibilities towards their children due to prevalent poverty in the hamlets. A typical result is the case of the dehydrated child who, we later learnt had to come to school without taking lunch. He also hinted of the inability of the school management to pay them living wages.

Later, in a discussion with the staff, Steve praised their efforts and sacrifices. He assured them of the continues support of the 4HIM in the area of infrastructure. He however advised Pastor Ransome to contact some organisations like the UNICEF to help in instituting a feeding program for the children.

The team inspected latest infrastructure development at the school. They were happy to note that the 1^st classroom block comprising three classrooms have been completed with doors and locks. The latrine comprising five cubicles is also almost complete.

Pastor Ransome, in a final discussion with Steve, impressed it upon him the need to start another block of classrooms fast to decongest the present three classrooms that house five classes. Also the next academic year is just around the conner and more classrooms will be needed to cater for primary 5 and 6 classes. On the payment of living wages to the staff of the school, Pastor Ransome is making a general appeal to individuals and organisations to partner with the alleluia bakery to discharge this task as the bakery alone is not adequately up to it

The 4HIM team left Lome for Accra Tuesday 3^rd February en route to their bases in Sierra Leone and Oklahoma city, U.S.A.