Dave Swann- Project planning and Development

Dave was a guy from England who lives in South Africa. He taught us about project planning and strategic planning. The difference between the two is that strategic planning is more over a bigger group of people or nation and is focused on a vision and a mission. Where project planning is focused more on a smaller group of people/culture and driven by goals and objectives. In the class he split us up in two groups and gave us a chance to plan a project of our own and my group made up a coffee shop project. After we were done he gave us pointers on what would work and what wouldn’t. He also had us read Nehemiah 1 through 2 and pointed out how there was strategy in the bible not only spirituality, which made me realize that God gave us reasoning and thinking for a reason.

This week for outreach we worked alongside with Metro Ministries once again. We did a few skits that showed how our choices (Adam and Eve) separate us from unity with God and how Jesus brought us back together (Jesus crucifixion). I played the part of Adam. It was really cool because at the end we had a little alter call and invited the kids on stage to accept Jesus. Almost the whole stage was filled up with kids which was awesome to see as it showed their excitement to respond. These kids are accepting the seeds that are sown into their life and I can’t wait for them to be full grown.

http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2010/02/28/council-knew-145-kids-were-missing-in-birmingham-at-time-of-khyra-death-66331-25927807/

In this article it is talking about 145 kids missing in Birmingham schools during the death of a young girl who was not attending school. Some of the kids had been missing since 2006 and not able to be traced in the whole country. This is a scary thing to think about that so many children are first taken out of their education and second, are not able to be found. The ages ranged between 5 and 16 years old.

Unicef.org

This organization is working with children at risk all around the world. Some of their main focus areas are: child survival and development, basic education and gender equality, HIV/AIDS, Child protection, and policy advocacy and partnership. Their motives or the reason why they do it is because children have rights, children demand a voice, poverty reduction starts with children, and because children should not be dying from preventable cause. You can support by being a donor, volunteer or member of one of their organizations they are partnered with.