Joan is one of our younger students at about 4 years of age. She attends with her older sister Precious who is her polar opposite in personalities. Joan is bright, sweet and hard to get to sit down unless she is about to fall asleep. Like the core group around her age, they are hard…
Meet our Students: Nasra
Today we are meeting Nasra, one of our Standard 1 students. She is another sweet young girl at our school coming from the middle area between the two main villages that provide our students. She is good about being on time for things and not being the last one to stroll in after the bell….
Meet our Students: Adam and School Reopens after Coronavirus
Yes, I know it has been several weeks since I last wrote a blog and I am sorry. Big thanks to the Gordons for allowing me to pet sit while they took a weekend trip and allow me some much needed introvert time to clear my head and get my writing juices going again. This…
Meet our Students: Mery
Mery, Mery quite contrary. I don’t know why but that always sticks in my head when I am talking about or to Mery (pronounced Mary). She is of course nothing like the nursery rhyme song which has been largely equated to dark themes of torture. She is not even really like the definition: inclined to…
Meet our Students: Ebenzery
I am going to be honest, Ebenzery is hard to write about. There is a lot to talk about with Ebenzery so that is not the problem. It is difficult to truly tell you about Ebenzery without addressing what would be described in most developed countries as a learning/development challenge. You see Ebenzery is in…
Watch the Facebook Live Presentation
Sorry to anyone who tried to watch the video live Sunday night, but Facebook Event does not provide a url you can link to it turns out. Here is the video including the attempt at q&a at the end.
Meet our Students: Sajida
Sajida (pronounced Sah-gee-dah) is a very sweet young girl in our middle preschool class who started last year in the baby class. She is not known for showing her emotions very much. Almost every picture and mental memory I have of her is similar to the one to the left of this text. She does…
International Ministry in a Pandemic
Big challenges provide us with big opportunities to prove ourself. That was something I truly grasped for the first time when I was in the military. The bigger the obstacle, the nastier the problem always saw people of true worth step up and do something. This is one of those challenges. In today’s blog I…
Meet our Students: Angel (1)
This week I want to introduce you to Angel. Sometimes spelled Angela but she prefers to be called Angel. I also referenced her as number one. When we have multiple students with the same name, the students refer to them with a number based on when they got there. I am not sure what is…
Meet our Students: Gift
You can click on the photos above to view them in a larger scale. This post will be about Gift which is pronounced Gifty. In Kiswahili speaking countries, all english words that end with certain consonants like t or d the final letter is pronounced as a separate hard syllable. So Gift is pronounced Gif–T…
Steve and Barnabas 