For some time Dawn has been burdened for those who have never had a chance to attend school and learn how to read. The vast majority of these are women. Most of these women do not know English well and are only proficient in their mother tongue. Dawn has been working on learning Bemba, the dominant language in Zambia, and for the past two years has been seeking for a way to teach the ladies in our churches how to read in their own language with the goal of teaching them to read the Bible for themselves. Adult literacy curriculum was developed several decades ago, but it is badly in need of reworking. Dawn has taken two groups of ladies through this curriculum, revising it as she goes. In 2012 she will start her third group and begin teaching the more successful ladies how to use this material to teach other how to read.

More details on this effort will appear here later.