VOICE – Values Orientation In Classroom Education

Five years ago, VOICE values education for public schools was incorporated in the Philippines. Within one year, 75 volunteers were teaching it to 4,500 students in eight public schools. Since then, it has grown exponentially. During the 2009-10 school year, 50,000 students were taught biblically-based values weekly in 170-180 schools. Around 150 churches adopted these schools and 700-800 volunteers taught the curriculum.

The impact of VOICE has also stretched beyond the classroom. Students are being saved, baptized, and becoming active in their churches. Parents are also responding. Students, volunteer teachers, and public school teachers and principals all testify to the positive changes in students’ lives.

One missionary writes, “As we make friends with the students and visit them in their homes we have open opportunities to present the gospel to their families. We have also been invited to present seminars on parenting and class discipline to the teachers. These seminars led to a twice monthly Bible Study Class with Public School teachers at our church…. One of the teachers has invited us to conduct a Bible study for all of the teachers in her school.”

This year VOICE staff has been running to keep up with requests for trainings—to the north and south; in fact, curriculum distribution in the past six months is more than double that of the same period last year! Some initial print runs have been depleted and reprinted. All of this represents more students hearing God’s Word each week in their classrooms.

The impact of VOICE may even reach outside the Philippines. Recently, missionaries Laura Bonney and Ruth Haynes traveled to Uganda on a vision trip to evaluate the potential of using VOICE there.

All this has been made possible through the generous donations of believers around the world. God has taken your gift and multiplied it and we can’t wait to see what He does in years to come!

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