All year, Dan Kappers and I have been co-teaching the grade 9 Service Learning class at HOPAC. Throughout the course of the year, students researched and wrote about problems in Tanzania and their possible solutions. As a culminating project, students split into groups to write two more specific research papers on problems they saw in…
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Video: Teaching at HOPAC
Check out the new HOPAC teacher recruitment video–its a great glimpse into what its like to teach at HOPAC! Haven of Peace Academy – Teacher Recruitment from Modlab.tv on Vimeo.
Climbing to the Roof of Africa
Last Friday morning, in the middle of one of Dar’s characteristic downpours, I climbed onto a bus with seventeen high school students and five other chaperones with the intent of climbing Africa’s tallest mountain: Mount Kilimanjaro. It was a typical African road trip with multiple stops because the trailer on the back of the bus…
Aljeco 19
Last week, I traveled to Dodoma with Marc Driesenga (HOPAC’s Bible teacher) and 17 eleventh and twelfth graders from HOPAC for the annual SEW (Service Emphasis Week). Just outside Dodoma, Allen Conrad and his wife Jennifer have started developing a plot of land with the dream of starting an orphanage, Aljeco Home Organization. Their vision…
A Day in the Life…
In case anyone wondered what a “normal” day looks like for me here in Tanzania…here is a play-by-play from earlier this week. Wednesday, January 22, 2014 4:45 a.m. deee, duum, du… Just dance… deee, duum, du… Just dance… As Lady Gaga blares from my cell phone, I groggily roll over and double-check to make sure my second…
Moshi Sports Weekend
The buses pulled out of the parking lot at 5:30 a.m. Friday morning. 10 hours later, we arrived at the International School of Moshi. 37 students and staff piled out of the buses. Ready. Set. Go. The weekend started with boys’ basketball and Ultimate Frisbee. Then came boys’ football, volleyball, girls’ basketball, swimming, and the…
HOPAC Assembly: Christ Preaches Restoration
Christ Preaches Restoration I don’t know about you guys, but I love stories. Even the first words send shivers down my back and a curious tingle racing through my veins: “In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit…” or, “It was a bright, cold, day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen…”…
Writers Influenced and Influencing
“There must be a resemblance, which does not depend upon their own will, between al the writers of any particular age. They cannot escape from subjection to a common influence which arises out of an infinite combination of circumstances belonging to the times in which they live; though each is in a degree the author…
Photo Blog: School – Day One
There’s a lot more pictures on Facebook — check them out! Day one (and two) at HOPAC was a success…onward we go! Thanks for all of your prayers and support to make this possible.
First Day of School!
“The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.” – Alice Wellington Robbins Tomorrow is the first day of school at Haven of Peace Academy in…
Ride Fierce Racing 