Sometimes my time here is the the absolute best thing I have ever gotten to do in my life. This week definitely was that way. I have been mentioning the Christmas shoebox alternative proposed by a church in the USA. Well this was the week we gave the bags to the kids. The project started…
Test Prep, Sermons, School Choir and pictures
The Tumaini Evangelistic Pre & Primary School choir This week was once again a full week. I started the week by typing in the tests the teacher’s prepared for the end of the school year. To say I was horrified at some of the questions is an understatement. First understand school is a lot different…
Thank You!
Being the week of Thanksgiving I felt it was a good time to give thanks to many of those who help me and the school this year. The difficult part of that for me is that I only know who supports me or someone who gives to the overall ministry because they went through me…
Math Competition and School Meetings
We continue with the advanced pace at the school heading to the end of the school year. This week we had our normal events like “Reading with Barnabas” and classes, but we added in our Math Competition which I have been working on for the last two months and a sort of surprise school parent…
Spelling Bee a success!!!! Plus Rashida Jones reads to our kids this week.
It seems every week I have a lot of items to go over in this blog. The first is about the spelling competition I have been preparing for the last two months has finally happened and I have to say it was a big success. I wish I had not been in charge so I…
Teaching Duty, Kids are going to Vomit, How to make a Virtual Mission Trip and Sarah Silverman reads to our Kids
So this week was another very full week at the school. It started with end of month testing and finished with a tribal conflict in the village that required Police presence. Yeah that kind of fun. sometimes it is just exhausting to be at school The first three days were filled with the kids taking…
Weird Weather again and Lily reads to our kids.
This week we encountered some strange weather. After a couple of weeks hitting into the 100s the weather broke Monday afternoon in a strange wind storm that made visibility about 5 feet due to the sand storms. Overnight it started to rain and by the next morning the temperature had dropped to the 50s where…
So much going on!!! Reid Scott with Storyline Online and Lila (friend’s daughter) read our stories this week.
This last week has been overflowing with activity and so many big things started that I am going to have work them all into the next couple of blogs. First up is our normal Reading with Barnabas segment. This week we used two videos. The first was a second video made by my High School…
Our First Successful Virtual Mission Trip from High School Friend’s daughter
I had a friend from high school be the first to help me out with the Virtual Mission Trip I proposed back in June. He recorded his daughter reading Dr. Seuss’s “Hop with Pop.” The kids really enjoyed having someone close to their own age read a story to them. But I think what was…
Snakes, Kevin Costner and Jillian Estelle read our story, bad english books and two surprises
I want to start off this blog on a positive note because it will take a dark turn (for me-you will probably laugh) later. This week our story was read by Kevin Costner and Jillian Estelle and was called “Catching the Moon” written by Crystal Hubbard and illustrated by Randy duBurke. It is the childhood…
Steve and Barnabas 