Robert and Caleb have hit their stride building the high school. The 1st 17 days on the job will be the hardest as they are pouring the slab...17 work days in a row. It's hot and it's slow going but they have started making friendships with the men they work with. They will be with these men every Monday - Friday for the duration on the project so please pray for favor and influence with these men for God's glory.
I have been tagging along with Shane and Mitzi learning how they operate and how I can best help. Their days are filled with the constant interruption of need. How anything ever gets done is still a wonder to me. You just sit down to get some work done and here comes someone who needs medical attention, then a teacher needs supplies, then someone needs a ride to town, and then and then and then... It's actually quite amazing. At home and at work. It seems there is ALWAYS someone waiting for you. One morning there was a mother and her daughter waiting outside the gate for a ride to the hospital. Her daughter had a broken arm...just sitting on a tree stump waiting. So when Mitzi had a long list of to do's and 5 children to care for that day she just rolls with the punches and adds to her list...This will be my life and I pray for the grace to say yes.
I will get to office in the Library of the school to help keep the library open as often as possible to encourage reading. What better spot! I have had the opportunity to tutor a couple of times already. Two boys that are actually men, 17 & 19 I think. They are in grade 7 and read on a 2nd grade level...maybe. EVERYDAY...I mean EVERYDAY they show up for tutoring. And they will wait and hour or more if they have to. They are desperate to learn. They want a future. I wish we could bottle their hopes, dreams and desires and sell it in America...Pray for S and R that God would open their minds to learn how to read. PLEASE PRAY!
I have had so many experiences in my 2 short weeks; Caleb meeting Africa for the 1st time and making friends and loving someone because Christ does. PRICELESS! Hearing conversations about what to do with a widowers children after his 30 year old wife passed away. Seeing shoeless, clothes-less hungry people by the droves, waiting, bargaining, paying $$$$ for simple groceries, picking lemons from our lemon trees and making fresh squeezed lemonade, having a Zambian ask if I was married (HA!! the lure of the pale white skin), driving on the wrong side of the road in downtown Kitwe, listening to Robert and Caleb talk about how they want to make the workers lives better, playing Uno with 3 of my sponsor kids for hours, African praise and worship...
Well...today is my miracle day! Because God brought me to Africa and He for sure is not done with me yet!
Sandy
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