(TLF) The Ultimate Law Is Love

 What Is Your View On Education In Nigeria? "They left Nigerian educational system to rot and send their children abroad to school." There's nothing joyous about politicians' children schooling abroad. Look at the state of our primary and secondary schools in villages, these children are hardly able to write letters at Senior classes, how would they pass JAMB? How would they gain admission into the highly competitive universities, how will they ever read professional courses that could land them a job after graduation? Imagine if these people now go to NCES or Colleges of Education, and become teachers? The cycle of poor education would continue. Meanwhile, the best are supposed to be the ones to attend Teachers' Training colleges, so that they can raise good students, but now, mostly the deprived attend NCEs. I don't think anyone is feeling this pain, where people going to NCE are people with less qualifications, unlike in the past where those teachers who we...

Wonderful Reward by Anne Cetas Donelan, a teacher, had always been a reader, but one day it literally paid off. She was planning a trip and reviewing her lengthy travel insurance policy when on page seven she discovered a wonderful reward. As part of their “It Pays to Read” contest, the company was giving $10,000 to the first person to read that far into the contract. They also donated thousands of dollars to schools in Donelan’s area for children’s literacy. She says, “I’ve always been that nerd who reads contracts. I was the most surprised of anyone!”  The psalmist wanted his eyes opened to “see wonderful things” about God (Psalm 119:18). He must have had an understanding that God wants to be known, and so he longed for a deeper closeness to Him. His desire was to see more of who God is, what He’d already given, and how to follow Him more closely (vv. 24, 98). He wrote, “Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long” (v. 97). We too have the privilege of taking time...

You can sponsor a child today who is unable to pay for his or her schooling.  The result of this is that they would be smarter, they would get formal education, they can attain a professional skill and they can be taken out of the street from vices and hardships. Many children are going through a lot to get an education. Please help. There are many NGOs and Foundations who can be used to channel your generous funds for sponsoring a child. Kindly contact us: Tina Love Foundation GTCO (Guaranty Trust Bank) 0033315918 Send us an email to tinalovefoundation@gmail.com  

 ... growing up in the 80s and 90s did not provide alternatives such as satellite TV, Internet or electronic media. Whenever there was no light or school or anything to do, we resorted to books. Yes oh my true life story. I read Chinua Achebe, S. M. O. Aka, Shakespeare, encyclopaedia and the entire Bible between Junior and Senior secondary school levels. I didn't read them because I was forced or they were recommended in the school curriculum or Sunday school, I just read them with day light, and struggled with the sunset before darkness came. I thank God for that time in my life because I realise that over time I, like most of us, get so busy that even when we desire to read and put books aside to read, we get caught up with other important activities. So what I recommend now is that children be taught first to read especially hardcopy materials (Bible, books, comics, encyclopaedia, indigenous and foreign literature and even newspapers) then we can start to introduce them to elect...

 

Today is World Literacy Day and it's also the theme for the month of September in Tina Love Foundation (TLF). We alternate it in some years with #Learning. What's literacy for us? Formal and Informal Education! Without the basic tools of reading and writing, informal education is difficult. Without the basic knowledge of skills, reading and writing can't be put to use. For us at TLF this year we shall be throwing it open to everyone to join us support children going back to school. Some states in Nigeria had their resumption Sept. 4 like Lagos. Some are resuming Sept. 11 like Edo. While some others are starting their new session Sept. 18 like Oyo. How can we support children going back to school? Dear grandparents we know in your time things were not this ridiculously expensive but guess what? Older siblings do not pass on their old textbooks to their younger ones any more in most schools. They buy new ones. Dear parents we know you too are spending on your children, but gu...

It's been suggested that we do something practical here in line with our theme #Literacy. We've suggested we create a reading competition- online- with a book we can all assess online or a soft copy be made available - chapters or the whole book- and report- or post the video. These are great ideas. I've been to a number of physical book readings. One had the author of the book read excerpts to us. One had all of us being given copies of the book and we encircled ourselves and read. Another had us sit while one person read from the book and we shared our opinions at the end. Trust me, these were great times in my life.  I've multiple copies of some books I wanted to replicate in the TLF Centre. I did it once. I got copies of Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyon  (adult and children's comic versions). It was interesting and I wish to do more where we can once again gather in peace. So for the rest of the year 2023, we would like us to read Pilgrim's Progress and...

The Professor’s Confession by Tim Gustafson This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. 1 John 3:16 Horrified by his students’ poor writing habits, renowned author and college professor David Foster Wallace considered how he might improve their skills. That’s when a startling question confronted him. The professor had to ask himself why a student would listen to someone “as smug, narrow, self-righteous, [and] condescending” as he was. He knew he had a problem with pride. That professor could and did change, but he could never become one of his students. Yet when Jesus came to Earth, He showed us what humility looks like by becoming one of us. Stepping across all kinds of boundaries, Jesus made Himself at home everywhere by serving, teaching, and doing the will of His Father. Even as He was being crucified, Jesus prayed for forgiveness for His executioners (Luke 23:34). Straining for every anguished breath, He still granted eternal life to a criminal dying ...

 

Theme Our thematic issues for this month is Learning aka Literacy We urge us in love to pick one of the issues under our theme for the month and help share messages, videos, pictures and matters for discussion and development of action plans under any of the issues. Let's try and review the aim of learning and the ideal of literacy which comes from God in His Word which says people perish for lack of knowledge and let’s see how it improves acts of charity and social development. #September #Learning #Literacy

Culled from Our Daily Bread devotional In-Service Training By Jennifer Benson Schuldt A manager at a company in Brazil requested a written report from the custodians in her building. Each day she wanted to know who cleaned each room, which rooms were left untouched, and how much time employees spent in each room. The first “daily” report arrived a week later, partially completed. When the manager looked into the matter, she discovered most of the cleaning employees couldn’t read. She could have fired them, but instead she arranged for them to have literacy lessons. Within five months, everyone was reading at a basic level and continued in their jobs. God often uses our struggles as opportunities to equip us to continue working for Him. Peter’s life was marked by inexperience and mistakes. His faith faltered as he tried to walk on water. He wasn’t sure if Jesus should pay the temple tax (Matthew 17:24–27). He even rejected Christ’s prophecy about the crucifixion and resurrection (16:21–...