Friday, October 03, 2008

Greetings everyone! We hope you are well. Things are going very well here! Our visitors made it safely on Monday night. There are two couples, Paul and Sue Frazier and Eddie and Jenny Mack. They are from Pennsylvania. Paul and Sue have been working building churches in Venezuela for the last seventeen years. They heard Phyllis speak at the Free Methodist General Conference a couple of years ago and God called them to come. They are here to help finish the classrooms. They are going to plaster the outside of the buildings, put ceilings in and help Jamison fix the drainage problem. Here is a picture of Jenny and Sue painting some of the trim on one of the classrooms. They are very knowledgeable about construction and it will be a great blessing for them to be here. It is great to be surrounded by so many people who are so strong and wise in their faith. I know Jamison and I can learn a lot from them. Jamison is enjoying having something more concrete to do, he jumped right into helping in any way he can. I am enjoying my birthday here, I got to pick out what food I want to eat and the children of the school sang to me during their morning assembly. I also got some packages that people sent with the two couples. Thank you all so very much, it was the best birthday present I could have hoped for. I am nearly finished with the first movie Phyllis is having me work on. We will start filming the next one soon. In the meantime, I am going to be painting a mural of a shepherd and some sheep on the wall of the assembly hall. Since so many of the children are shepherds themselves, it will be very fitting. We are really enjoying being able to get to know some of the Fulani very well. A week ago, a new baby was born, but she had some kind of blockage that wasn’t allowing her to pass anything. We took her to the hospital, where they did some tests. It was some kind of infection, but she is doing very well now and was able to come home yesterday. It worked out nicely, since the Fulani name their children on the seventh day, she is named Haggi. We were able to go and celebrate with them. This is me with one of the Fulani girls, Aisha. They fed us some Nigerian food and some home made butter milk. It was all very delicious! We miss you all and love you very much. Thank you for your continued prayers and support, we are very grateful. Have a wonderful week!

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