Hello all of our friends and family! We miss you all so much! We hope that all of you are doing 

well. We have safely made it up to Kogi State. This is where all the Fulani are living. School started on September 8^th and things are very busy here! The classroom block that we told you about in July is still being worked on. It only needs shutters and doors now. The carpenters have finished the desks, so they are using three of the four classrooms as they are. The building has some drainage problems, so we are trying to get things figured out. Life is different up here; we are a half an hour away from the nearest town, living out near the bush. It is fun to live right on the school site, though there is much less privacy with all the children running 

around all of the time! We love it though! We have yet to begin work on the Nisoma; we are waiting for funding to come in. There will be an article about the project in International Childcare Ministries’ upcoming Love Link, which is an online magazine that can be found on their web site. We have gotten some of the corn and soybeans that we will use to make the cereal planted. Soon we will be able to harvest them and make something to feed the children. In the meantime, the Fulani children are being fed garri, which is a sort of cream of wheat made from cassava root, cream of cassava if you will. It doesn’t look appetizing to us, but the children love it. Here is a picture of the children waiting to get their garri. While we wait, Kristie is working on editing a video Phyllis made about life in Nigeria and Jamison has been working on fixing some electrical problems in the house and is doing some painting on the new classroom block. We are adapting well to life here in Africa, Jamison even let Kristie give him a new haircut! You can see it in this picture of him painting. We miss you all tons and love you very much! Thank you so much for your prayers and support.