John and Zoe serve at Rift Valley Academy (RVA), AIM’s boarding school in Kijabe, Kenya, which educates and disciples the children of missionaries. After three years at the school, their older daughter is graduating and moving back to the UK for university. They will be staying in the dorm with a new cohort of 7th-grade girls who will be with them for two years. Zoe will continue helping in kindergarten every morning, and John will be taking a sideways step out of teaching and into a pastoral role as the Hub Co-ordinator. The Hub is a pastoral team including representatives from academics, student life, student health, counselling, spiritual life and senior leadership. John’s role will be to receive referrals and direct them to the relevant department, and to liaise with parents about the co-ordination of care, interventions and support any student might need. He will continue to coach sport every day, and be on the Preaching, Worship, Child Safety Interviewing, UK Further Education, and African Field Studies teams too. Please pray for a positive finish to their last term with their current group of dorm girls. Ask that the Lord may grant them a precious last couple of months as a family of four living together.

John and Zoe serve at Rift Valley Academy (RVA), AIM’s boarding school, which educates and disciples the children of missionaries in Kijabe, Kenya. They praise God for the privilege of being part of a ministry that believes in children and strives to nurture, educate and teach them about their place in God’s world.  In their dorm, there are ten 13 and 14-year-old girls. Many of their parents are involved with different types of work including supporting the local church in Uganda, flying planes into Zambia, working as doctors in Kenya, and supporting vulnerable young women in Tanzania. Please pray for John and Zoe as they seek to care for these girls. Not all of them come from missionary families. Some families may not even be believers, but have chosen to send their children to RVA for the quality of education. However, as John & Zoe say, they’re getting a gospel bonus!

John and Zoe serve at Rift Valley Academy (RVA), AIM’s boarding school, which educates and disciples the children of missionaries in Kijabe, Kenya. Praise God that dorm parenting continues to go well, even with the ups and downs that come with 14-year-old girls! They are encouraged that one or two who were quiet at the beginning are feeling more settled and are coming out of their shells more. Please pray for them as they seek to understand the cultural differences in communication, trust, truth and honour, and that the Lord will enable them to build relationships.