First I hope and pray everyone is safe. The Corona Virus continues to dominate my news feed and Facebook wall. From humor to apocalyptic predictions it is all there seems to be to talk about right now. While I have tried to post things on Facebook not related to the virus or at least somewhat tongue…
The world is under a self quarantine. What is a Christian to do?
This is Mery’s bible story book she got a year and a half ago. She has worn the cover and several pages off of it in that time. During times like this it is good to make sure we spend time daily reading the Bible and communicating with God. While it is ok to be…
Teaching the 3 Rs
As soon as I wrote that title I realized I would have to differentiate from what I mean and Reading, ‘ritin and ‘rithmatic version of the 3 Rs. I am talking about the Reduce, Reuse and Recycle version. No this is not going to be a change your whole to life to no plastics and…
February Top Students and Prayer Requests
We have just wrapped up February’s monthly testing and awarded top student honors. I want to share those with you and then I will go into some prayer requests for the site and the country. From the Baby Class we had a tie at first place between Ramadhan (left) and Ibrahim. Also in Baby class…
What do you do when it is really hot and you have no a/c-it is not what you think
So temperatures here continue to be in the 90s with high humidity though we have not had any rain this week. As I mentioned before I am forgoing the refrigerator so I can have power for the fan at night. Yes I understand the physics of a fan blowing hot air around but moving hot air…
We have already started testing for the year!
While I will be the first to say testing is not always the best method of determining how someone is doing in school, I also recognize that it is difficult to change a culture that only understands testing. Testing is a time consuming process that takes up a half a week of classroom time every…
I am actually writing my first blog in real time while at the site
I realize many of you will not realize what a big deal that is, but is Mt. Kilimanjaro big. For my entire six years as a missionary, I have had to travel to a larger town and type my blog in while I was somewhere that either had wifi or at least cell phone service. …
2019 is done, long live 2020!
Hello everyone and welcome to 2020. Something weird about saying that. I almost feel like I am back in the 1980s and that is a commercial for a home computer from Tandy at Radio Shack. Regardless of my old person issues, we are here in 2020. I wanted to take a moment and reflect on…
It is Christmas time again and all I want are my two front teeth.
I have seen a lot on Facebook about if you don’t like this Christmas son then something is wrong with you. Well I don’t get into all that negative speak but I have to say if you can look at these faces and not think about the song “All I want for Christmas is my…
Six years and End of Year Testing
Six years really does not seem like a long time. When I first planned to come to Africa with my first mission group I intended to spend six years there. I thought that would give enough time to get the ministry back up and running and have everybody working on the same page. We know…
Steve and Barnabas 