1) Pray for increased impact of the Student Labour Programme.

2) Pray for funds to be raised to offer even more scholarships to deserving students.

3) Pray for the students to acquit themselves well as the first term nears its end.

4) Pray for successful accreditation processing of our programmes by the Higher Education Authority (HEA).

1) Praise the Lord for each addition to staff and faculty.

2) Praise the Lord for enthusiastic response of our new students to the ACU approach to education.

3) Praise the Lord for the exciting developments in the Student Labour Programme.

4) Praise the Lord for the recently held annual Sports Day.

We are currently furnishing the new male and female students hostels. We are looking for donations of the following items:

Please see the March Prayer Update below.

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Our experience at ACU during the first half of the term has been alright. The

members of staff have been easy to communicate with and were quick to resolve issues regarding registration and application. This enabled us to focus our attention on studies quite early on. With regards to schoolwork, the faculty that we learned with have been consistent in their giving of work; patient with our questions; skilled in asking thought-provoking questions and deliberate in prompting class discussion. This has made learning feel like an active phenomenon rather than a mundane, passive activity. ACU isn’t interested in teaching the individual to learn things merely for the sake of learning or for a job at the end; the classical approach it takes to learning focuses on the development of the individual’s capacity to plan, read, write, and think for themselves. This is not only exhibited in the subjects that are taken in the first year (which involve lengthy and sometimes difficult readings), but also in the work and assignments that are dished out (memorisation of information, extensive writing, class presentations) which keep the students busy at all times. To top it all off, everything is learned from a biblical worldview. This means that the individual would have the Bible as his foundation for learning, which has sadly been lost in today’s culture.

That being said, all human institutions have their weak points, Christian ones included. It is said that when things get to their extreme, they turn into their opposites. One of the goals of ACU is to keep the students constantly busy with work so as to cultivate a good work ethic. The problem with this is that in its excess, it counteracts its original goal. I found it to be the case that the intense workload would lead to a spread out concentration across multiple assignments that would result in a degradation in their quality of content. Another issue that arises is that there is almost no time to help other students that would be behind in work or even slow in understanding certain subjects or topics.

All things considered though, the positives do outweigh the negatives and I’m excited to see what the future would have in store for us.

In the recent past, God has blessed ACU with several additions to staff and faculty. Here are some names to be on the lookout for on the faculty front:

Mr. Brian Mukuka is A-Level co-ordinator, and also lectures Biology in the Agriculture degree and

A-Level (Science) programmes.

Mr. Christopher Katungu lectures Organisational Psychology in the School of Business part-time.

Miss Mwelwa Kunda is a part-time lecturer of Economics under the School of Business.

Dr. Edwin Nyirenda is a part-time lecturer in Mathematics and Physics in both the School of Education and the A-Level (Science) programme.

Mrs. Bridget Shula is a part-time lecturer of Financial Management under the School of Business.

Mrs. Mary Mukwavi is the new Dean of Agriculture with a specialty in Food Security and Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Community Resilience.

Mr. Arthur Kazumba Msimuko is the new Dean of Business with a specialty in Business Administration and Finance.

Miss Samantha Lesa has joined the School of Agriculture as a part-time lecturer assisting with Chemistry as well as in the A-Level (Science) programme.

Miss Grace Munyumbwe is new in the School of Agriculture as a part-time lecturer with a specialty in Microbiology and Fungi Collection and Identification.

Mr. Kenneth Banda has joined the School of Education as a part-time lecturer in Computer Science and Engineering.

Dr. Renford Gombwa is a part-time lecturer under the School of Agriculture.

Pr. Collins Sakalunda will be assisting in lecturing the Bible’s Grand Narrative course in the Scholars Programme.

Dr. Andrew Daniel has most recently joined the School of Divinity.

Regarding new staff members, we have been pleased to welcome Mrs. Mirriam Simfukwe who is assisting in the Registrar and Administrative offices, and Miss Mwaka Nalwimba who is volunteering and assisting in the Account department.

We look forward to building the vision of ACU with these excellent men and women, and encourage you to be on the lookout for them and their stories as the year goes on.