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About Mwalimu Bora

Mwalimu Bora is the Teacher Formation Program at Timazi Africa. After serving for a long time as itinerary preachers in high schools, we appreciate that teachers are best placed to disciple students. They are more effective because they are there with them all the time as opposed to a preacher who comes only occasionally. It is our conviction that our best input is to support the teacher by equipping, prayer, encouragement and providing resources needed to do the work of discipleship.

Mwalimu Bora seeks to integrate this vision and training early enough while the teacher is in training.

Vision

We envision seeing committed disciples of Jesus in High Schools in Africa

Mission

Train Bachelor and Diploma of Education students to become effective Christian teachers among High School students.

The Product

Christian Teachers teaching effectively in high schools while discipling students into Christlikeness.

Our Approach

We choose the noun Formation over Training to communicate the essence of the forming the whole person as opposed to training that only concentrates on the skill. It is Educator Parker Palmer who says that, “formation is a concept from the spiritual traditions, and it involves a concern for personal wholeness. Where training asks if the person has the right knowledge and technique, formation asks after the state of the person’s soul. Where training offers the person new data and methods, formation offers the person help in discerning his or her identity and integrity.

Objectives Of Mwalimu Bora

The teacher formation process has four main objectives that is reflected in the curriculum design.


God seeks to develop a personal relationship with every believer (John 1:12; 17:3; Romans 8:14-17). This relationship is not passive but active. This aspect of developing a personal relationship with Jesus to learn from Him, know Him and be transformed to be like Him is what is referred to as discipleship. And it takes conscious personal effort, endurance and sacrifice. The teacher can only give what he has.


The natural result and the spiritual nature of discipleship is that maturity will lead to reproduction. The teacher formation program aims at reproduction and multiplication of disciples from the onset. These reproducing disciples, now teachers, will teach the same specific concepts, disciplines, spiritual truths, and skills they have learnt over the years. They will then be commissioned to make disciples, sent as workers in a wide harvest field in schools in Africa equipped with the skills of 21st century youth minister.


Further to personal discipleship and disciple making, the training equips the teacher to move their ministry into the classroom.

Traditionally, the influence of a Christian teacher has been in the Christian Union either as a CU Patron or an assistant. Mwalimu Bora seeks to help the Christian teacher to move that influence into the classroom by training the teacher to develop a biblical mind on the whole issue of education. How does the teacher teach Math, English, Science, and other subjects with God as the center? How do they do this in a public school? How does the teacher integrate faith as they teach, do discipline and grade students? The teacher should not only make disciples outside the classroom, but they must demonstrate their faith in their daily walk, conduct and practice to the students with no dichotomy.


God calls every believer to go to all nations and make disciples. The teacher formation program is committed to see the Gospel go to the ends of the earth. The teacher will be prepared to serve God as a teacher in the frontier as teaching is one of the careers in high demand in closed nations. Schools, especially Christian schools, are not only the future of Christ-centered education, but the future of Christian mission. Schools are a major point of contact between the Gospel and society.

Chalk Conference

Become part of Mwalimu Bora by attending Chalk Conference held every April. Chalk Conference gets its name from the everyday interaction of the teacher with the chalk. This is a five-day conference for Education students and recent education graduates whose two main objectives are:

1. To sell the vision of teaching as the one of the most strategically placed careers in fulfilling the Great Commission.

2. To connect the students with teachers who are already on the ground and engaging with students beyond the classroom for inspiration and network building.

Testimonials

"One of the best things that can happen in someone’s life is getting discipled - and Mwalimu Bora has offered that to me. Not only have I been trained as a Christian teacher, but I have been personally discipled in all areas of my life. "

--TEVYNE OKEYO

Mwalimu Bora Teacher, 2024

"My life has really been impacted. I now look at every part of my life in light of the Scriptures. Now as a teacher, I am able to see the universality of sin and therefore as I deal with a student on discipline issues, I must remember we are all broken beings and must look towards Christ both for me and for the student’s sake. "

--PAULINE ODERA

Mwalimu Bora Teacher, 2024

"I have really learnt the value of discipleship in that as a teacher, in as much as I am able to deliver the content, I am also concerned about the soul-formation of the student - which is of more eternal value than just the content. The content is important but I now look at the students from an eternal perspective and not just as people I am taking through a curriculum. "

--VICTOR MURIMI

Mwalimu Bora Teacher, 2024

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