Hello! We made it here and we are happy. God has been so good to us. We arrived on time and the Sortor’s were at the airport to pick us up. We stayed the first night in Abuja, the capitol, and arrived here in Lokoja on Friday. We will be here until Tuesday, then we will drive down to Eket, where we will stay until September. Then we will come back up here for the start of school. Check out this map to see where these places are, Lokoja is just south of Abuja, which is in the middle of the country. Eket isn’t named there, but it is down in the southeast, near Port Harcourt. Things are very nice here. We are living in an apartment that is attached to the back of the assembly hall here at the school. It is quiet here now, but I imagine that once school gets started this becomes a very busy place. They have almost completed the building of a second block of classrooms here that would allow twice as many children to attend school here in the fall. We are waiting for wood to be planed for the door and window frames. The power is very inconsistent here; we had just an hour of it yesterday, so it has been difficult for the planers to do their work. We are hoping the power stays on for longer today. There is a back up generator here, so when the power shuts off, we still have lights and fans. We have begun planning for a project we will be working on in September. We will be building a Busoma. It is like a workshop for making a very nutritious cereal for the children. We are very excited to be heading this project. To learn more about a Busoma, you can got the International Childcare Ministries web site, where they have a video explaining how it works. It is the Burundi Food Fund video. We love you and miss you greatly. Continue to pray for us, we need your prayers now more than ever. Thank you!
Monday, July 07, 2008
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4 comments:
I love you and am glad you made it safe! No sooner do you land and they put you to work, eh? Love you lots and I'm so very proud of both of you guys!
Khrysta
YAY! You made it! It is exciting to hear that the trip went well and that you are getting settled with some things to do. We are continuing to pray for you both!
Rob
Hi! Its sounds like things are going smoothly, how exciting! I got the parking permits, we love and miss you!
Welcome to your "new home". We love you guys! Adam (Becca, Sophia)
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