It's Here! It's Here!

Hello All,
We have a CT Scanner in the room that was made for it!  It finally came this week on Wednesday.  It was very exciting.  We had to wait one more day to off load it because we had a forklift coming from Nairobi, but all worked out well.  There were many medical items on the truck that many are grateful to have.  We  want to thank everyone involved for all their effort.  You are appreciated beyond measure!  Here is a video link to the movie that Jim put together of the truck making a U turn in a very tight spot (truck drivers are amazing!), backing up in front of the Mother Child Health Building and the forklift unloading the scanner:

"Lord, we thank you for the arrival of the scanner.  We pray that it will be a blessing to many people that need it.  Thank you for all the people that were involved in getting it here and just know that we are grateful for it all."
And, we thank everyone that added their prayers to this effort!

Last week, I told you that I had gone with the band on Band Tour 2012 for a short time.  Trevor got home late Sunday night and said it finished well.  The last school they played at was an all girls Catholic school.  These girls don't get to interact with boys very much.  Trevor said it was like a mini rock concert!  The girls were screaming and had their hands in the air waving to the songs, especially when the mostly boy trumpet line played some cool parts in the song Pirates of the Caribbean!  They had a good ending to the week end. 

I came home on Saturday and got a short nap then was back up at the school helping to make 60 pizza crusts and another 240 bread sticks!  We got it all done and were home by 9:30.  The first time we did it, we didn't finish till about 10:45 so we must be getting better at it.  Here are a few pictures of me and the other sponsors of the class:

This is one of the monster mixer they have at the Cafeteria.  It is so much fun to use!

Carolyn and I working with a giant blob of pizza dough.

Kylie, Carolyn, Becky, Mark (from left to right) are other sponsors.  Great people to work with.

Yesterday (Friday) was the Kenyan Independence Day - Madaraka Day.  It marks the 49th year of the day of internal Independence from Great Britain.  It was a national holiday, so the hospital was closed - hence we got the day off too!  It really did feel like a holiday as the kids also got out of school at 11:30 to start the mid-term break.  They will go back on Tuesday and have 6 more weeks till the end of the term.  Many of the Seniors are feeling the disparity of their peers back home!  Most HS Seniors in the states are graduated by now and having celebrations and summer jobs!  The kids here will graduate on July 14.  Then they travel back to the states to get ready for college which usually starts mid to late Aug.  It doesn't give them much time to adjust and get settled, but I guess that is life.  We will be facing this dilemma with Trevor in 2 years (Mungu Akupenda! - God Willing!)  But, I don't feel too sorry for them as they all left yesterday early for the coast to spend a week at a posh hotel!  I am sure the chaperones will have their hands full with 90 something 18 year olds getting ready to graduate!

We finally got our tender documents for the peds wing and 5 of the 7 contractors that we had screened have picked them up.  We expect that in 3 weeks we will have these back and start to evaluate who will be our contractor.  We are very excited to be at this point and it will be a long 3 weeks of waiting!

The Bethany Kid's Board is meeting this week end.  Please pray that they will have unity and clarity as they move forward with all that is on their plate!

Thank you all so much for your support.  Please write as you can.  We so much enjoy hearing from you.
jimjulliet@AHC123.com

In His Hands,
Jullie T.