Part of the vision for the Roca Blanca ministry in general has always included schooling our staff children, as well as providing an alternative for the children of our pastors, wherever they may be located. Many towns and villages have only preschool and elementary schools, some have middle schools, and few have high schools. The literacy rate in Oaxaca is quite low, and educational standards are often dismal.

Some years ago a high school was started on the base. It began primarily teaching much of our own national staff who had never gotten a high school diploma. Since the first years the high school has developed to where now most of the students are normal high school age. Some graduates have gone on to university, and others into the Bible school to prepare for a lifetime of Christian ministry. The high school is named after John Amos Comenius, an early leader in the Moravian movement centuries ago that eventually reached distant formally untouched shores as missionaries for the sake of the gospel. He was a well known educator and thinker in the first half of the seventeenth century, and an example of good educational principles in his day.

A few years passed when the vision furthered with the foundation of a preschool and elementary school on the base. Not only has it served staff here but it also has been a great blessing for many of our Spanish school students’ children as their parents are equipped for this part of their missionary service here. As some have graduated they have by necessity needed a middle and high school class as well. These schools are taught by able teachers, many of whom also happen to be graduates of our Bible school.

David is working as Superintendent in our K-12 schools here on the base. Our Mexican national curriculum high school (10-12 grade) at any given time has around 40 students from neighboring towns (some are indigenous pastor’s children) and our own village. Our other school is K-12 and uses Accelerated Christian Education curriculum. It is fully bilingual with all English workbooks and materials. This school is shaping up to be an excellent institution of learning for our staff children, Spanish school student children, and town children, almost 60 in total. Our total student count presently is near one hundred, with an accompanying staff of fifteen teachers and helpers. We’re very pleased to be a part of all this.

Please allow us to provide you now with an opportunity to help us in this school, for those of you who might be interested. We’re aware that many Christ followers have certain causes that move them. Many give for our Clinic and medical work, for which we’re so grateful! Others of you are more moved by education and ministry equipping for adult foreign missionaries and Mexican pastors, evangelists, teachers, etc., in training. And there may be some of you who would like to respond to the vision of our younger children’s bilingual Christian education for the next generation coming.

Our K-12 schools can’t possibly charge our staff and townsfolk what’s really needed to run the school. If you’ve been here you know that our town and missionary base staff work hard to make ends meet. And our parents also give up a government subsidy given to public school parents to send their children to us! Sacrifices of love are manifested all around us here. And our teachers are getting only a small portion of what they would receive if they were teaching in our Mexican school system, and loss of valuable benefits as well. But they’re sacrificing for love of their young students, our kids, knowing that the fruit in years to come will be worth the losses. We see how they live, and would very much like to pay them a little more. And the need for materials and other necessary items for the school is constant and very much needed.

We also have a constant need of native English speakers who can give six months or a year as an offering to the Lord simply to speak English with our children, help them with their homework, immersing the students in English so that they can more easily comprehend and learn in our bilingual setting. Would you be interested in sowing into our kids?

Thank you for praying and helping provide by giving for our little and not so little ones that are studying under godly teachers and curriculum with us!