Hello, sorry I have not prepared more blog updates recently. I have several almost complete. But this topic has a timeline so I am putting it in front of completing the other blogs. This year’s standard 4 class is about to do their National Exams on October 26 and 27, 2022. That is next Wednesday…

Tuesday night I had a great event to speak to the Women at Mauldin UMC. Not just a circle but a general gathering. We had great food and a good turnout for an event like this. I would say close to 60 women and a couple of men helping me were there. I sold a…

I am currently back in the states and speaking as often as I can line things up. I started at St. Mark UMC thanking them for their support of me personally. I have done a presentation at Rolling Green Retirement Village that was about the Maasai and why their future makes education so important. Next…

The Sunday after my birthday party at the school was student recognition day at Kiruani Tanzania Assemblies of God church. Our students played a big role in leading that church service both in song, skits and delivering multiple short messages. It was a day to be proud of them and bask the ways our students…

The big day has finally happened. Normally the school closes over June for the break between the two semesters, but this year the country is conducting a census so they have the break scheduled later in the year so students will be home from boarding schools for the count. This meant a rare opportunity for…

This year I have started something new with the students in hopes of encouraging them to better their grades but also to remove top students from remedial classes to let teachers focus more attention on students that need help. I set up four extracurricular clubs to meet during the day’s remedial classes (3:50-4:30 pm) for…

Last week was a rough week here on site. It is easy sometimes during those times to focus on what you don’t have and not what you do have. The fact that I have had to spend more time in the states during all the COVID restrictions has made me think more of the comforts…

So Friday our school hosted our first friendly football match. Please remember this is a European football country so it is really soccer. The match is with the local government primary school within walking distance. This was interesting because almost all the kids know each other and many of the older kids at the local…

After going through all of our student photos, I realized I had some earlier photos of some of the students and thought it might be fun to share some of those old photos next to the new one so we can see some of the changes. Disclaimer: Some of the early photos were taken by…

Actually this may be more I get the good camera out and try and take every kids photo with a lot more pictures as well. This year we have 166 students at the end of March across 3 preschool classes and 5 standard classes. We only have two more standard classes to add to finish…