Today we went to the village outside of Jos called Kisayip. Some of the guys dug holes and installed soccer goal posts. Actually, they started digging the holes and the men from the village took over the digging and completed it much quicker than we could have without their help. The cement will dry overnight and tomorrow we will have a ribbon cutting ceremony to officially open the soccer field. We also built desks for the students at the school. Last year one of the teams from the US poured concrete floors and built benches. We got to build the desks to complete their classrooms. The kids helped build and sand the desks and were very excited to go to school tomorrow with actual desks. Diane and Jeanette (who are both nurses) worked with the village doctor at the clinic and treated over 35 patients. A couple of other people hung malaria nets over the beds in the infirmary at the clinic. It was a very busy day, but we got all our projects completed.
Everyone is still healthy and having fun. Tomorrow we are going back to the same village and taking the CLAF kids with us to have a block party for the people in the village. It will be great fun.
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It sounds like your trip is going very well. We continue to lift you up in prayer.
By the way how are Tim and Cathy (from Mexico) doing? Tell them Mark says hello!
Awesome! Take a bunch of pictures of the block party. Denali and I are headed to obedience class--pray for us. Then she is off to the kennel in the morning and I am off to the SASOM conference. Not sure if they will have WI-FI available, so I may not be in contact again until it is time for you guys to fly back in. The cool news is that the SA has agreed to allow me to take a bunch of people on a field trip to do SE at the local malls and parks on Saturday morning. It will be their first time ever doing SE--they have heard of it, but never actually done it--so we should have BIG FUN! I will try not to kick over any red kettles!
We miss you! Keep up the cool work you are doing--love the soccer field, however like Dan, I would have been more excited about a baseball diamond or a FOOTBALL, not "futbol" field.
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