Oh, to have the energy of the youth!

We continue in our goal to have the schoolhouse and the hall finished at Fort White before we leave to go back to America on August 14.  Fortunately, we have had two great teams come this swinter (our summer, their winter) to help us.  Our second team was from Cambridge Baptist Church in East London.  The team was the youth from the church and they did a great job.  We had them rip up all the tile from the school house.  They also painted the rest of the rooms in the schoolhouse that needed to be finished and they started on the building behind the chapel.  They were a fun group of kids with more energy than the Energizer Bunny.  I loved having my house full of people and watching them interact with each other and my kids.  Once again, Thomas made new friends as soon as he met them.  They worked for 3 days and made great strides in the projects that need to be finished.  Thank you Cambridge team and we hope to have you back very soon.

We had a surprise guest when Scott Flowers gave us call one day.  Trenton Glore was from the Journey team that had come a week and a half ago.  He felt he wanted to stay longer in South Africa and continue working where he was needed.  We enjoyed having him stay at Fort White and help work on the roofs.  Thank you Trenton for all of your hard work.

We have 3 1/2 weeks left here in South Africa and our prayer is that we see what God needs us to do before we leave.  We will have one more team here in a week to lead a sports camp with the children from the near by village.  It will be good to meet these children since they will be the ones that might come to the school or to some of the other classes we’d like to teach.  There will be a language barrier but I know that God is a mighty god and works through any barrier we think we have.

Thank you for your prayers and sweet emails.  They are keeping us going.