Teachers

Be praying for Hope Academy here in Emi-Woro, we are in need of 7 new
teachers! That is half our teaching staff, we are sure the Lord can
provide we just need to ask. Would you join us as we ask for teachers
that love children and teachers that want to pass on good education. We
have 10 days before interviews begin, pray that the applications would
be flowing in. Photo from Yesterday: Hurerra and Baby Phyllis

Teachers

Be praying for Hope Academy here in Emi-Woro, we are in need of 7 new
teachers! That is half our teaching staff, we are sure the Lord can
provide we just need to ask. Would you join us as we ask for teachers
that love children and teachers that want to pass on good education. We
have 10 days before interviews begin, pray that the applications would
be flowing in. Photo from Yesterday: Hurerra and Baby Phyllis

Type Away

Priscilla, a secondary student, a great help to us here at the mission
and our FM pastor's daughter was watching me type away on the computer
last week and asked if she could try. After playing around for awhile
she asked if she could come each day and practice. I thought "now that
is a great idea". So after her second lesson today she can keep her eyes
off her hands, keep her fingers on home row and type 6 WPM. Way better
than I was after my second lesson!

Call Me

Okay Friends, it works, I promise and it's such a blessing. If you want to chat here's how. Install Skype if you have not already.
You have to open a Skype account then use your Credit or Debit card to put money on it. It is about 25 cents a minute to call me on my cell phone in Nigeria :)
On the bottom of the left hand column in the Skype screen select call phones.
Enter the number 234807971584 in the phone to dial. Under the number pad is a save button for the next time you call me!
When I get back to Burundi you will have to use a different number that I can give you. But for now this is our best way to stay in touch :) Miss you!

Expecting to be a blessing

We walked to the village today, expecting to be a blessing. To greet, to
visit, to take advantage of a great cloud cover that offered us a not so
hot and not rainy afternoon. But what we got instead was a chance to be
blessed. We were happy to see friends along the way as we set out for a
regular Sunday afternoon. At our first stop we talked with Aishat (the
team from WFMC may remember her as the mama who helped with our
laundry), she gave us the grand tour of her compound, showing us all the
lovely trees, and greens she has growing. God is so creative, each green
(they somehow look very similar to me) has its own purpose, to ward off
mosquitos, to make soup taste better, to bring down a fever or to help
with digestion; all of it created for our good. She even let us sample
some limes she had growing from her citrus tree. As we continued along
we saw some members of our church and children from our school. It was
good to see familiar faces as they've been away on school holiday for a
couple of weeks now. They kept coming, more and more friends as we
walked down the road, people calling us out by name, greeting us, so
friendly. What we didn't expect is the generosity. The boys and I have
been dreaming about Costco lately, you know the Sample Ladies who make
your Saturday extra special. Our mouth waters each time we think about
it. Today the Lord gave us our very own version of Costco. We first got
to sample limes at the citrus tree, then we were offered a gift of corn
and ground nuts, our friend Halima later bought us a bag of groundnuts
and then someone gave us some sweeties. Bridget looked at me and said
"Didn't you think it would have been us to give them something?" But
today when we expected to give the blessing we received it instead. A
lesson on God's provision in greens, in generosity of others, in
friendship, in community.
Photo: Some of our very hard working friends in Emi-Woro.

Esther

Africa called
She went for the first time, it grew in her heart
All of her children, so many children
Now Esther has 2.4 million children
She writes us and asks us to pray for them all
She's compelled, she's compelled by what she's seen
And she tells us, she tells us do anything you can
to help, oh please help, there's so much to do
And I'm just Esther
She visits her homeland, she fights with her words
She comes to the courts of the kings of the earth
Who don't understand their inherited power
To answer her question
Now Esther has 2.4 million children
She writes us and asks us to pray for them all
She's compelled, she's compelled by what she's seen
And she tells us, she tells us do anything you can
to help, oh please help, there's so much to do
And I'm just Esther
Sara Groves

Thursday

We don't usually drive THRU the market but after 30 min stuck in Traffic
we were willing to take the detour.
We don't usually drive 3 hours, have a flat tire along the way, spend an
hour at our location and then turn around and drive 3 hours back but
today we did.
We don't usually get to visit our boarding students on summer vacation
but we got to spend time with Lawal, Isiaka, and Aisha today.
I don't usually get to talk with a good friend from America but first
she woke me up to chat at 2am and then kindly called back at 7am, a much
happier hour.
I usually experience great, immeasurable amounts of God's goodness,
mercy, provision and grace and today was usual!