School's In

The last couple weeks we have been very busy preparing for the new school year. We worked on our plans for the classes we will be teaching and found out what our schedules will be for the year. We will be teaching and tutoring at three orphanages and at the boys transition house. We will also be leading several youth groups in each place.

We had a get together with the older kids in the south when we went there to deliver school kits. H2H has an apartment there and it is where we will stay for two days while we are teaching there.

We went to one of the girl's 18th birthday party. We were treated like guests of honor there, given the best seats at the table, the first pieces of cake, and all the girls there were so excited to have us with them.

We got to see our girl Elena, we have kept up our friendship since meeting her at summer camp in 2008. We will be able to see her every week now that we will be having the youth group in her town. We are very excited to be able to build up relationships there with the many kids that we know but haven't been able to see much so far.

We went to the baby hospital a couple times and Rebecca got to spend time with her boy.

We handed out school kits to all of the orphanages with supplies for the kids in each class.

The kids were excited about their new school supplies and were also eager to show us their school work that they were doing.

We moved into our new home, the former girls transition house. It is a very nice place, with a big living room and kitchen, yard and garden. It is in a small village so we can enjoy the feeling of small town living again. We will be nearer to several ministry locations so our driving times will be cut down a bit.

In our room we created a small sitting area so that we can have a place of our own. We have enjoyed living there so far with the interns and Mariana. We helped other people move too, a whole weekend was taken up by moving, it was quite a production.

Since the last post there have been several answers to the prayer requests. The intern's visa situations were resolved after much work and confusion and stress. God pulled through in the end though and it is all taken care of. The meetings with the orphanage directors went very well, we will be able to do everything that we want to do in the orphanages this year.

Please continue to pray for us and our staff as we start our new programs this Monday. We are excited to be working with so many kids but we need many prayers for wisdom and confidence and strength. Thanks so much for your prayers!