Matt and Debi Zook minister among the Lolo people of Mozambique. “The literacy program run by our local church began on April 10 and has run through the first week of July. We are having a short break now, and then we will continue. There are six literacy classes a day Monday to Friday. There are also two post-literacy Bible study classes. Some of the classes should be finishing the end of July, others the end of August and maybe into September. As usual, there have been a variety of difficulties, but it never ceases to amaze us and bring us joy to see how willing the children are to learn and how successful they are. This year, besides the small morning classes, the afternoon classes peaked at over 160 children a day. Right now, we are running around 50 children in the afternoon classes which is a good sustainable number for the teachers. Please keep this in your prayers. It’s always great to pull out the Bibles once they are about 65% of the way through the program and start reading through the book of Mark.”

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