Quiz competition fosters Servant Leadership!

Apr 5, 2019 | Education

Driving home into Chicago recently via the I-94 Expy, I noticed a building on the roadside with a large painting of abolitionist pioneer, Frederick Douglass. Next to his visage are the words, “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free!” Indeed, there is no...

Better Practices for Better Education

May 10, 2018 | Education, News

I remember when I was at Brother Rice High School how one of my teachers named Brother Moore would never give a grade of 100% on any of his tests or assignments. His reason, as he would say, was that “there is always room for improvement.” In HEAL’s educational...

From Dungeon of Despair to House of Hope

Mar 29, 2018 | Education, Youth

Sometimes, great servant leaders (Mt. 20:28) come from humble and dangerous beginnings. Take Moses, who Yahweh chose to lead His people out of slavery in Egypt. Faced with Pharaoh’s plan to reduce the Hebrew slave population by killing newborn boys, Moses’s...

Servant Leaders in Action

Mar 2, 2018 | Education

Education is a core program within HEAL’s mission of forming Servant Leaders (Mt. 20:28) among West Africans. Now that the Ministry of Education has certified our school in Akpim village as a center for the Basic Education Certificate Exam (BECE), our teachers must...

A New Exam Center

Jan 26, 2018 | Education, Youth

Taking exams, including standardized tests, has never been my strong suit. But, I always realized how important exams were for advancing to the next level. I remember taking the GRE years ago as a part of my preparation to apply to graduate school. After many long...

Campaign to Educate Our Children

Jun 29, 2017 | Education

Quality education is more of a luxury in Nigeria than an available necessity.  I wrote recently about how concern for day-to-day survival can diminish the importance of education in the minds of subsistence farming families.  This is one of the main challenges to...