B2R Master Trainer Herman Mutuzi Mweze recently held a graduation ceremony to celebrate the completing of instruction for four new literacy trainers in the area of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The newly certified trainers are Emanuel Mweze, from Kabungo village; Roger Barhwire, from Mudusa village; Dieudonne Mukaza, from Luhoko village; and […]
On June 29th we participated in the Annual 5k freedom run which was held at the Greenwood freedom grounds. This was the most attended run so far. We had more than 180 participants who joined the OMS and Mercy Inc. teams at the event. More than $9,000 was raised for Bridge to Reading through the […]
Helping non-readers in Africa and Colombia walk across the … About two dozen supporters participated in a 5K fun run in Audubon, N.J., on a beautiful September morning. They and their supporters were helping us toward our fund-raising goal of $5,000 to print Kingwana (Congo Swahili) language tutor training materials. If you would like to […]
Many OMS village churches in Africa have only a weathered board that serves as a chalkboard for tutoring. In 2016 Bridge to Reading began raising money to provide chalkboards to replace the weathered boards https://onemissionsociety.org/give/bridge-to-reading Enough money was raised in 2017 to provide 25 chalkboards for a few of the hundreds of churches in Burundi […]
My name is Angelique and I’m 12 years old. I live in a small fishing village in the Zawara area in the Central African Republic. My parents are fishermen and because of their fishing activities, we arrived and settled in this village. We did not go to church because we were animists. We were born […]
The man in orange shirt is Guy. He’s 60 years old, a married father of 10 children, who had never attended school and could neither read nor write. When a church was planted in the Central African Republic village of Gbahaho, the implanter initiated the Bridge to Reading. Guy and other adults were interested in […]
In the village Bobissa, located 200 km from Bangui in the Central African Republic, a church has just been established. The village has more than 500 inhabitants. There is no school. In an effort to combat illiteracy, the church planter began to offer the Bridge to Reading program. He started with just two learners under […]
Nyassa is a woman from the Democratic Republic of the Congo whose church began to offer literacy classes. She studied in a small group of Bridge to Reading adult students for three years. Nyassa’s husband was very glad to have a wife who could read and write. So he gave her money to buy materials […]
In Matthew 10:17 and 27 Jesus said, “Be on your guard; you will be handed over to the local councils and be flogged in the synagogues… Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.” Though John had been an evangelist in […]
Jack had been humiliated by his illiteracy for many years. Here’s his story. “Three years ago I could not approach a girl. They laughed whenever I tried to build a friendship with anyone who knew my life story. I had never been to school because my parents were very poor so I could not read […]
