The Work

I didn't get a chance to write yesterday. Karen, Pat, and I are busy teaching. We spent time with the house mothers of the boys' village. We had been in the girls' village on Monday with all the girls and the house mothers, but now we had just the women. That is what we really wanted - to teach adults so they can carry the message on. The women at the boys' village didn't look too excited at first, but soon got into our activities. We did a new activity trying to get them understand that water might all look alike but it might have germs and a person needs to drink this purified water all the time. The women wanted to take the props from the activity so we let them.

The men finished the system which wasn't much work today. Some went in to town to buy new tires. A new thing here is that Fr Mark has an ice machine he wants hooked up. 

Afternoon was wonderful for the teachers. We had a couple of hours with the public health nurse and the 8 young men who work with her. These young men live here and this is the job they chose. We had them (and us) act out the crossing of the Red Sea. They looked skeptical at first, but when we all started putting on the props they got into it. Working with this group was very rewarding as we talked about the importance of the purified water.

God is good!