2019 Annual Report

Celebrating the Literacy Network

“I always pray with joy because of

our partnership in the gospel from the

first day until now.” Philippians 1:4-5

Member Nations We are are so blessed to be part of a network of people and

organizations who believe in and participate in literacy and

conversational English ministry with Bible Content. Member

Nations are important components in this growing network. A

Member Nation is an LEI “franchise” in a country. The Member

Nation does ministry in accordance with LEI standards, has its

own board and is responsible for its own finances. LEI-Canada

became a Member Nation in 2016. Representatives of Member

Nations meet every 4-5 years and have input for overall policy

and ministry directions.

Member Nations Include:

Benin Brazil Canada DR Congo Ghana

Kenya Malawi Nigeria Togo USA

Conferences

SOCEM – Southern Ontario Cooperative for English

Ministry (October 28) in Mississauga, Ontario.

Sharing the Vision in Churches

Rev. Carey Jo Johnston presented the LEI

ministry at Markham Chinese Presbyterian , Keswick

Presbyterian, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Sutton, St.

Paul Presbyterian Nobleton, St. John Presbyterian Port

Perry as well as Oak Ridges Presbytery.

Hosting Ministry Partners

Rev. Samuel Lawerteh, Director of L&E Ghana ,

visited Canada in August to promote the ministry

among Canadian Ghanaian Churches. There are over

20,000 Ghanaians in the Toronto area with over 20

Ghanaian churches, plus language fellowships. Rev.

Lawerteh, Mrs. Sharon Hionides (Board Chair), and

Rev. Carey Jo Johnston visited the Ga/Dangbe

Language Homowo Gala to

promote li teracy.

Canada

40 Days of Prayer

We have started a new prayer init iat ive

for 40 days during Lent. Prayer i tems

are sent out by email weekly to people

who register to part icipate.

New Website

We have completed the new website. Check it out

www.l iteracyevangelism.ca .

Training

Assisting with International Literacy Training Institute Tulsa, Oklahoma (June 17-21)

In cooperation with LEI-USA, Carey Jo Johnston

traveled to Tulsa to teach “Introduction to Primer Construct ion” June 17-21. This is one week of the 3-week training. She had 6 trainees for this course from USA, Nigeria, Ghana, and Colombia. Nat Nunoo

from L&E Ghana assisted with teaching the course.

Digital Training

Dr. Melina Gallo, missionary with LEI -USA, is

developing digital courses for LEI’s main trainings.

Rev. Carey Jo Johnston continued to develop a 2 -part

Digital course for Primer Construction.

Rev. Carey Jo Johnston to “Horn of Africa” –

In November, Carey Jo Johnston returned to the Horn of Africa to complete the development of l iteracy materials in the “A” language. The “A” people are nomadic camel herders, 95% i l l iterate. Carey Jo worked with a team of “A” language speakers to complete the 3 rd book which is 36 Bible Stories. They decided on the t it le for the 3 book series “Kawsiyyi

Safar” – Journey to Reading.

Ministry Partners

Guatemala LAMP http://www.lampliteracy.org/

Our national missionary, Director Brian Feliz in

Comitancillo, and staff Maria, Herminio. and Eliceo,

continue to lead Mam literacy classes as well as

teacher trainings. They continue to develop stories in

Mam, Bible studies for radio, and assisting with Old

Testament translat ion.

This year they also helped

organize a celebrat ion for

the 20 th anniversary of the

Mam Bible.

Latin America

Guatemala City – Yovany & Esmerelda Hernandez

National missionaries Yovany and

Esmeralda in Guatemala City are

training teachers and teaching

literacy in Spanish. They attended a

special training for Partnership Development in

Colombia.

Colombia – Carolina Perdomo Carolina has been leading teacher training workshops for l iteracy in Spanish and local languages in Colombia. She has assisted groups in

developing

literacy materials in their local languages. Carolina also attended the Partnership Development course in Colombia.

Sierra Leone – partnering with Literacy Sierra Leone directed by Agnes Bangura. This has been a regrouping year after

the death of former director Gregory Bangura in December of 2018. Malawi –

Supporting literacy in Malawi as Maxwell Mpitanyanga trains teachers in Lambya, Chewa, Yao and Sena languages. Maxwell and other L&E Malawi team members revised the Chewa primers. Malawi suffered severe f looding in early 2019 from the hurricane.

Maxwell visited classes to give out

cert if icates

and held

teacher

training

workshops.

Africa

Ghana –

Supporting Literacy & Evangelism Ghana – the Ghana

staff completed the Asante, Fante primers, and started

Bono primer. They also facil itated teacher trainings.

Nat Nunoo also traveled to Nigeria to assist with primer

construction. Rev. Carey Jo Johnston assisted in

reviewing and edit ing materials via email and Skype.

They also celebrated

World Literacy Day on

September 8 th.

Supporting the work

of Gyan Mochary,

l iteracy consultant in

northeast India.

Gyan held teacher trainings in various regions of India

and visited regions to promote literacy. They also began English

classes with the Little Flock Discipleship

School using the LEI ESL Curriculum.

India

2019 Financials

Income: General - $ 3,838.67 (15%) Designated - $ 22,301.54 (85%) Book Sales & Training - $ 73.00 (002%) TOTAL INCOME. ....... $ 26,213.21 Retained Earnings ....... $ 6687.34

Expenses: International Ministry: $ 12,570.97 (49%)

Canada Ministry: $ 11,420.15 (44%) Curriculum Printing $ 31.33

Public Relations $ 277.74 Other $ 1,196.96 Payroll $ 9,914.12

Office & Admin. $ 1,830.49 (7%)

TOTAL EXPENDITURES ......... $ 25,821.61

49%44%

7% InternationalMinistry

Canadian Ministry

Office &Administration

15%

85%

General

Designated

Book Sales &Training

The Mission

Literacy & Evangelism International equips the Church to share the message of Jesus Christ through the gif t of reading and conversational English.

The Strategy

We develop Bible-content materials to teach basic reading in local languages and conversational English.

We train church leaders and missionaries to use LEI materials for evangelism, discipleship and church planting.

We develop partnerships that expand the mission of LEI.

Canadian Board of Directors in 2019:

Sharon Hionides – President Nancy Warwick– Vice-President Ruth Russell – Treasurer Carey Jo Johnston – Secretary,

Managing Director Lori Martin – Board Member

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