It takes five whole days in a truck or three whole days in a car, driving over streets and grass runways to move from Ulan Bator to the outermost west of Mongolia. One of our couples from HELP Mongolia just made this move to the west to serve the Kazakhs who comprise most of the population there. They want to train them in English and handicraft. They report:
"Since the elections last year the emergency to build-up good vocational schools and to improve the quality of vocational training in handicraft is on everyone’s lips. That’s where we want to help and we actually got a hearing at the ministry of education:
Our first talk to a Kazakh professor at the university in Ulan Bator went very well. She said: “You are the right people at the right time for that place!” Our papers were sent to the city and the governor of the province was informed about us immediately.
We were encouraged once more when we called the director of the vocational school there: “That’s exactly what we need!”, he proclaimed. “Practical tutorial is exactly what we need! And, why wait with the language course till after the summer break – we can start with summer school right away!” ...
“In the Thick of it”
We believe that we will have good opportunities as teachers to not only teach knowledge and mechanical skills but will also be able to influence the students positively. We want to live out and impart biblical established values and are hoping to win the hearts of the people. We are very fond of the youth, would like to moot questions about a Christian way of life and want to play an active part in the Mongolian society – and now we got a place in the thick of it!
Who knows how many other opportunities will open up?"
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