Hello everyone! Things are wrapping up here. I got the mural finished, it turned out better than I could have ever expected. Here is a picture of me and the finished product. The Fulani that come to the school sit and stare at it. It is amazing to me how much they appreciate it. God is doing an amazing work in their lives; one day there will be a great harvest of them coming to know the Lord. It is exciting to be right in the middle of all that is going on here. Paul, Eddie and Jamison have been working really hard to get all of their projects finished before we leave. They got the bathhouse finished, it is looking really nice. Here is a picture of it. All of the huts are finished, all that is left is making a covered meeting place in the middle of the dormitory area and children will be able to move in. It should be ready at the beginning of the next term. We are really enjoying our last week here. Our church is going to have a big good-bye celebration for us on Sunday. They are bringing in a drummer and a keyboard player for music, so there will be dancing. It is going to be a Thanksgiving service. Each family will bring an offering to God to thank him for the year. They will be called up family by family to present their offering. It is going to be very exciting to participate in this service. We have been so blessed with this little church that we are a part of. God is going to do amazing things in this little village. It is going to be difficult to not be here, but we are ready to go back and see our families. We will be back in San Andreas on Friday, December 5^th. My father had his surgery last week to remove his cancer, and the surgeon said that it went perfectly! We are very glad that he is doing well. Thank you for praying for us, we appreciate it so much.

Hello! Things are going great here. We hope all is well with you.  The Bishop for Nigeria came with his wife for our general conferences. They are in Akwa Ibom now with Phyllis and our cook, Bassey. (Jenny and Sue can cook, so don’t worry, we are having more than just spaghetti!) It has been really great to be able to get to know them a little bit. They are very nice people. It is amazing the things that God is doing in this place! We are surrounded by people that love us so much! Last week, Bature, the Fulani man who helped Phyllis establish the school here, took us up to his camp. They dressed me up like a Fulani woman! It was a lot of fun. Here is me and Jamison in our Fulani garb and Bature, who is helping me balance the bowls. Work has been going along very well. Jamison has gotten much of the electrical updated, it works very well now. He even ran power down to the new bathhouse for the boarding area. The huts are nearly finished, all we need to do now is make beds and it will be ready for children to move in. We are hoping to be able to get the roof on before we go back to the States. The mural is coming along well. There isn’t much of a paint selection here, so I have to mix a lot of the colors to get them right. I haven’t mixed paint before, so it is an adventure! I have repainted the sheep several times to try and get them to look right. It will all look great when it is finished. Here is a picture of me painting the shepherd. We are getting ready to come back to the States. We will greatly miss the people here! We have fallen in love so much with all of the children and the members of the church. They have become a second family to us. But we are also excited to be able to come home and see all of you again! We love you and miss you and we hope and pray that you are well!

Hello! We pray that all things are going well with all of you. Phyllis came back safely from the US. She says that the memorial service was very good and that everything went smoothly. We are so thankful that she is back! Since she’s been back we have been doing a lot of filming for the second movie she wants made for her deputation. It will be a good movie when it is all finished; it is about the little shepherds that go to our school. While she was gone, we were very well taken care of by the people here. One of our pastor’s brother invited us to a revival at his church and to lunch at his house. We had a wonderful time listening to him preach and spending time with their family. The people here have been so kind to us, it will be difficult for us to leave in December. Next week, Bishop Kendall, an American man who is the bishop over the conferences here in Nigeria, will be here for the general conferences. He will be here in Kogi for a few days, then he will head down with Phyllis to Akwa Ibom to work with the churches there. While he is here, we will stay in Kogi to continue the work. The men have been working very hard on getting the foundation poured for the bathroom. It is going to look very good when it is all finished. On Saturday, we took the day off to travel across the Niger River. A missionary couple over there named Robert and Joyce Hyslop, have been working for many years to translate the Bible into one of the tribal languages. Robert died several years ago and is buried here in Nigeria, but Joyce still comes for three months every year. The translation is finally completed and they were dedicating it, so we went to join the celebration. We got to take a ferry across the Niger River! The service was very nice, but very hot, so we only stayed for a couple hours. It was a great experience to go and celebrate with the people. We are really enjoying our time here. It is amazing to see all the good things that God is going here. We miss you and love you and pray you are doing well.