Prayer focus on Education

POLITICAL and educational experts on education are meeting in Windhoek at a five-day national conference with more than 1 000 participants. Education is in a crisis. There are currently 600 000 students in Namibia. A worrying trend is a high dropout rate among boys and that the national average in mathematics and English is below 50 per cent.

President Hifikepunye Pohamba said “As a nation we must join each other’s hands to find the most effective manner of overcoming the challenges within Namibia’s education sector."

The single most critical issue that could destroy the Namibian education system is the poor discipline and work ethics of teachers, which results in many pupils being short-changed by about 40 to 50 days of learning per year.

Please intercede for this critical situation. Call upon God for -

• Wisdom for the experts, that they find urgent practical answers to the challenges that education faces.
• The Minister of Education Abraham Iyambo to guide the Namibian education system out of this crisis.
• All regions where the majority of pupils are performing below basic standard.
• The Oshana and Omusati regions which showed a decrease in school enrollment.
• Against the unacceptable lack of discipline and work ethics of teachers.
• A return to biblical based education and practices in Namibia. This is the foundation on which the present leaders of Namibia were raise and educated should return to it as soon as possible.
  

Pray for the nation to join each other’s hands to pray and find the most effective manner of overcoming the challenges within Namibia’s education sector. Pray as the Holy Spirit guides.

Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds ...
Teach them to your children,
talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road,
when you lie down and when you get up ...
so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land
that the LORD swore to give your forefathers,
as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
Deuteronomy 11:18-21

Are you praying for Namibia?

It is winter time in Namibia. In a country that normally enjoys very hot conditions, the cold of winter has a serious impact. Please intercede for the many poor in Namibia who have to walk to school and work early in the morning. Pray that they will have food for energy and warm blankets to cover them at night.

Ask God for wisdom for the government, the church and business to take hands, to address the challenges before us and make Namibia a better place for all.

However, there should be no poor among you,
for in the land the LORD your God is giving you
to possess as your inheritance,
He will richly bless you.
Deuteronomy 15:4