Every year, the Farming God’s Way family of trainers, and up-and-coming trainers, meet somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa for a week of upskilling, encouragement and training into a particular location. We call this week, ‘In-Field Mentoring’ (IFM). The time together is crucial for building our network of trainers and ensuring the highest possible quality and standard of training throughout Africa and the world.

This year, plans for the 2017 IFM in Kenya fell through and it didn’t look like an alternative location would be found. At the same time, Dan felt a small prompting that maybe it would be possible to host the event in Durban. We were developing a few sites that were at the scale that they could benefit from some 2017 pre-season training.

From that first prompting, it was amazing to see logistics fall into place for the event to be held locally. We booked a site in Pinetown for the accommodation of our visiting trainers that was both economical and had great food. Plus we were amazed at the willingness of three partners from the KwaZulu Natal FGW network to host one of our training groups for a full 3 day training at their premises: CODAH, Harvest Giba Church and All Souls Anglican Church. We are grateful to them for their contribution and for the huge injection of training and encouragement into our local area of influence. Finally, none of this training is ever possible without the huge investment of Grant and Nikki Dryden.  Grant is the author of all the FGW materials and Nikki contributes excellent administrative and logistic support from the maintaining of training schedules, coordinating of travel details, ordering and editing of materials, and managing of communications. They both give amazing leadership and vision to Farming God’s Way extension from their base in Port Elizabeth.

We thoroughly enjoyed hosting IFM in Durban the last week in September. It was a huge success! 52 delegates flew in from as far away as the U.S., Benin, Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. Others came from Zimbabwe, Malawi, Ghana, Mozambique, Kenya, Uganda and Zambia – as well as South Africa, of course.
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IFM feels very much like a family reunion – and that’s intentional. Farming God’s Way is often described as a “relational network of trainers.” Like most family reunions, there are newcomers, but in this case the newcomers are new ‘trainers in training,’ not newborns or new spouses. The quality mentoring time spent with these ‘trainers in training’ was rich in learning and growth. Each one of them now can take the skills that they learned back to their countries to continue to train farmers to grow fresh, abundant harvests. Plus we fully accredited 2 new trainers.

A real highlight for Dan was to lay out a new large mixed veg area for one of our up-and-comers. We are praying it becomes a shining example of what is possible when we grow food God’s way!