El Salvador.
The Project started in El Salvador in 2017. While we work with the central ministry of education for the initial permission, we are in schools in San Salvador and hope to expand in La Libertad in 2021. This is a country in need of God as the organized crime is very high and the third-grade kids are often the drug dealers in the schools. Our goal is to at least double next year as these same schools continue with the other grades and another state joins the Project. These numbers show the amount of students reached in 2020.
228
SCHOOLS
59,276
STUDENTS
2,427
TEACHERS
Testimony
In the Francisco Gamboa school the students are the children of the market workers and prostitutes. They used to come to school with very bad attitudes and behavior, violence, and vulgar vocabulary. Though they knew about values, they didn’t live them. When they started studying their Vital Values with Jesus books, they started changing. The 4 most violent and obscene kids were impacted the most and changed most radically. The students are now sharing the word of God with their parents at home and the principal says that he knows it will slowly get through to them as a drop of water wares down a rock.
Testimony
Jose, a grade 4 student, asked his teacher, Cesar, to send his thanks to Project Jesus for the Vital Values with Jesus lessons, saying that it is wonderful to him to be doing them at home and that his favorite lesson is on the “Family.”
Honduras.
During the end of 2019, Honduras changed from resisting the teaching of Jesus in the schools to welcoming it. What miraculously open doors there are in this country now. Close to half the primary and preschool student population is studying Vital Values with Jesus. Next year, the gold is half a million children. Please continue to pray for Honduras and come help us distribute the books next year!
4,370
SCHOOLS
486,781
STUDENTS
17,476
TEACHERS
Nicaragua.
There are 16 Project workers present in all of the country. In 2020, God opened the doors to reach 70% of the students in public schools nationally. God has done so many miracles for this country so that these precious little children may learn of Him. There are almost 900,000 students in all of Nicaragua and the goal is to continue to increase the yearly donation until 100% of these jewels know of Jesus.
6,356
SCHOOLS
612,602
STUDENTS
22,978
TEACHERS
Testimony
Benjamin teaches grade 5 in Masaya and states that it fills him with pride to see how his students are learning to analyze what God says in His Word.
Testimony
A teacher in Heredia and told us about one of her students who is autistic. The parents weren’t sure that they wanted to tackle the digital lessons as they felt it would double their work with their son. But later the mother called the teacher and very emotionally related how in that doing the lesson on the Value of Obedience and particularly in doing the craft together and learning the application, their son sat still for an unusually long time, something that really surprised the mother and father. The mother is very happy for the interest their son shows in the lessons, saying that some of them he has practically done alone. The teacher told us that the mother could hardly find words to express their thankfulness for Project Jesus, that she sends lots of good wishes and blessings. The teacher herself expressed her own gratitude and joy.
Costa Rica.
Based in San Jose, 2 staff members promote and distribute the material to all areas of the country. Our focus is to slowly pass more responsibility on to the ministry of education supervisors in each district for the distribution and follow-up, thus enabling the teams to distribute more. In 2020, 45% of the elementary students studied the life of Christ in their classes through the use of Vital Values with Jesus.
1,171
SCHOOLS
202,988
STUDENTS
819
TEACHERS
Panama.
There are currently 2 workers that cover the provinces Chiriquí, Veraguas, Herrera, Los Santos, Cocle, Chorrera, and Panama City. The doors are wide open with the education authorities. The schools receive the material very well, but with much opportunity comes much opposition spiritually and it has been a challenge for the teachers to use the material well. While geographically in 2020 we are working in only half of the country, that still represents the most populated areas. We believe that God will allow his word to reach the students in rest of this country in the near future.
644
SCHOOLS
74,206
STUDENTS
3,693
TEACHERS
Testimony
One second grade boy was very violent. His parents abandoned him with his grandma and his dad only returned every once in a while, to beat him up. When the class studied the value on LOVE, the students suddenly stopped what they were doing and all went and hugged the little boy, telling him that they loved him. He cried, impacted by God’s love for the first time. After that, he was changed. He became happy, peaceful, and participated in class. That’s what God’s love does.
Testimony
God is moving in Colombia, uniting the churches, bringing peace and pointing the people to Himself. We believe God is opening the doors for the Project in this beautiful country.
Colombia.
In 2020, for the first time ever, a group of North American’s delivered books to many beautiful schools, distributing over 60,000 books in 4 days. God is good, and we saw wonderful expanision this year. We are praying to be able to reach 200,000 students in 2021. This is a very large country and we feel the time is right as the need for peace and unity is very present.
899
SCHOOLS
77,797
STUDENTS
2,335
TEACHERS