Today is a day of Thanksgiving! Even though it is 2 days after "the day," we are very thankful for a quiet day. It has been a busy week, but full of joy. Last week, we raced cars at Pinewood Derby and had a great time. Timothy and MJ's car was the fastest in the 11-12th grade! It was a Wii remote - go figure! I did well racing and got an award for most unique design. How fun is that!
Lane C, the fast Trident Missile Sub!
MJ and Timothy with a Wii remote!
Who knew that a sub would be cool!
The RVA Art Center: We have had our share of challenges this week. They have poured the ground floor and are heading up (this is a 3 story building). One of the walls they started up to about 1 meter must come down due to poor process (it had a few spots where water could be poured onto one side and it would come out the other side)! I have been busy working on door design (we have about 52 doors) and also the redesign of the 3rd floor. So grateful that my eMi partner is here watching over the details of rebar and concrete!
Thanksgiving was a great day- even though the boys had exams and I had a site meeting (its just wrong!), we ended the day with great turkey, stuffing, broccoli, pumpkin pie and good friends to share it with. We are so grateful for our work here and all God has done in our lives.
The Bethany Kids Wing: Wow - the challenges continue! We need some serious prayer. The contractor is extremely discouraged and really would like it all to go away. Not sure how it will play out, but we will see in the next few weeks.
We have over 65 quilts promised and some are close to being sent here. Just hope we have a building to put them in! Here is one that is finished - Beautiful!
"Cultural Exhaustion" - That is a term that has been used often this last week. If you have never lived in a different culture, it will be hard to understand, but it is a real part of life here and sometimes exhausting to deal with. Having the grace to look at each issue and handle it with understanding, it difficult and only God can give us the peace to not loose it. Sometimes we loose it anyway! Now that school is out , most of the missionaries here will take some time off. Time necessary to recharge and reflect and get ready to do it all again. Our projects are still ongoing so we won't have much time, but we are going to go away for a week to a little cabin in the hills and have some down time. We will look forward to that in one more week.
Patrick, our surveyor from Canada, is leaving today. He has worked tirelessly for 2 weeks now to get a good survey for RVA. We are very grateful to him and the 2 boys that helped out from Kijabe Boys School.
The kids are looking forward to putting up a Christmas tree and watching Christmas DVDs. We don't watch or listen to Christmas stuff till Dec (or sometimes the day after Thanksgiving). Have a great week and we pray that "....'his' joy will be in you and your joy may be complete." John 15:11b
In His Hands,
Jullie T.
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