Saturday, November 24, 2012

Thanks for Many Blessings!

Hello All,
Thanksgiving is such a special day for us.  We really love the tradition of it.  Setting aside a day to be thankful to God for all of our blessings and doing that with friends and family is very special.  This kind of celebration does not happen here in Kenya.  We had Rose and her granddaughter Yvonne celebrate with us.  Yvonne will talk to her friends for weeks about how she had a "sherehe" (celebration) with the Wazungu (Whites)!  We made some traditional foods:  Turkey (very expensive but worth it!), cranberry sauce (found 6 months ago and saved for this day), broccoli casserole (traditional sister's recipe), Potato Gunk (yummy potato casserole that Jim makes), Stuffing (from a box that was donated to us by some short termers that were leaving!), home made rolls (Rose makes the best), gravy and Aunt Georgia's Apple Crumb Pie (with ice cream - not Bryers but sufficient).  There are things we do as a family that just ground us, and this is one of them.  Thank you God for the ability to have a wonderful day!


Last Saturday was a banner day for the Taubitz kids at the races!  Pinewood Derby that is.  We had a great time watching the kids race their cars.  Timothy made an Ark with animals on it and Sallie made a slick pink and purple car.  Sallie came home with a second place win in the men's division (because of her age group, she had to make it "with Dad" so they were in the men's division, but she really did most of the work).  She was out of first by one last race where her car slowed to 5th place.  If she had even placed 3rd in that heat, she would have taken the gold!  She even had the fastest run time in her division of 3.611 seconds!  She and Jim had a great time and it was so fun to watch.  Timothy came home with a "Special Award" for creativity and workmanship.  His car was great and very creative.

Lauren and Timothy with their cars
 
Sallie's getting ready (Lane E)
 
Fastest Adult Men Speed - Sallie and Jim!
 
Sallie and Jim waiting for the start
 
The Victors!
 
The awards given.
 
I talked last week about getting a part for the CT Scanner from the states.  Well, it came late on Friday night and the guys installed it on Saturday, ran calibrations and by Sunday they had taken scans on 2 patients!  One of the patients was a small baby with hydrocephalus.  Jim was amazed at the lack of brain inside the head cavity and how much fluid is there.  It is the reason that most of these kids have very little hope.  The choice for the parents is to have a shunt put in to drain the fluid and the child can live for 20 years but at the level of a 2 year old, or do nothing and the child will die within a few years.  Not a situation I would like to be in.  Please pray for the families that have to choose every day here.  Haivng the CT up and running makes it a banner day for this hospital.  It is so important to have this ability here.  We have been told that once we start being able to get scans, the whole thing will grow exponentially and we will need another!  We were also told that having a second will help with maintaining at least one running, because parts will have to come from the states.  Hence, another project - sourcing a scanner, shipping it and building a space for it!  Here we go again - Hey, I thought we were done with that one!  We had a little fair well dinner with Jim (the expert) on Sunday.  Here is a picture - but notice the Cheese-It crackers on the table!  The kids came toward the end and were thrilled!  It is the simple reminders of home that are fun!

With the Engineering team at Jim's farewell dinner.

Trevor had his end of the term band concerts this past week end.  Sunday night was the wind ensemble and the concert band.  He plays in the wind ensemble.  They were great!  They did a song called Fire Bird from the ballet.  It really makes me want to see the ballet!  Monday night was the Jazz band.  That is my favorite.  The kids all wore funny hats and other paraphernalia and played for over an hour.  They did some very traditional jazz songs (that even I played when I was in school!) and some up to date ones.  We noticed that the trumpet line, made up of 4 boys, are all the top players in the calculus class too!  Hummm, what is the connection there?

Blurry Picture but not blurry sound!
 
 

School closed on Friday (they even had 1/2 of a day on Turkey day!), and they are out till Jan 3.  They take long breaks between terms so that the dorm kids can get to where they live (sometimes very far) and spend time with their families.  We are taking 3 of these 6 weeks off of work too, so maybe we can keep our sanity.  My Mother is coming next week end with a bag (or 2?) full of EBay purchases and other important things like ranch dressing, hot chocolate mix (even though it is summer weather) and Christmas sprinkles!  We really are looking forward to seeing her too but sure hope the bags make it OK!

We did do work this week too.
BK Wing:  Jim was busy with the contractor rerunning a water supply line, and tracking them as they source a good supply of sand for concrete works.  That has been surprisingly difficult.
ENT building:  I have been working on the ENT building still.  We are almost in agreement on the design.  These things can take a lot of time especially when the players are in the states!
House for Tracy and Craig: Jim and I are taking on another project I might have mentioned before.  We are helping our neighbors design and build a house.  They are with Care of Creation http://kenya.careofcreation.net/  We went to a company in Nairobi called East Africa Canvas Company.  They make the big tent safari tourist camps.  They have a steel frame construction that is very interesting.  In the states, there is quite a bit of this going on, but here it is pretty new.  We are exploring doing this with their house. 

 
 
We are heading for Kampala, Uganda tomorrow for just a few days.  Please pray for safe travels for us.  We just had the car repaired (steering column, suspension, air condition) and will be in it for about 10-12 hours depending on the traffic and boarder situation.  Kampala is where the East Africa EMI office is located.  We are going to meet those folks and get to know some of the other things that EMI is working on here.

Take Care and be Thankful for all!

In His Hands,
Jullie T.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

To Be found Wanting in the Balance

Hello All,
It has been such a busy week here (don't I say that every week)?  The deputy Prime Minister came on Thursday to dedicate the Palliative Care building, the Mother Child Health Facility, the CT scanner (looks great right now but not functioning yet) and ground break for the Bethany Kids Wing.  Here in Kenya they have a President, a Vice President, a Prime Minister and a Deputy Prime Minister (in that order).  It is part of the power sharing set up they developed after the violence in the 2008 election. They were painting and gardening and general sprucing up all the way up till Thursday morning!

The Kenyan Flag
 
Mrs Mary Muchendu (Executive Director) and Uhuru Kenyatta on the left
 
The guys painting the gray cement gray!
 
 
The Bethany Kids Ground breaking plaque
 
Trevor playing Jazz!
 
The RVA Band all set up
 
The RVA Band was all set up and ready to go by 9:30.  Kenyatta did not arrive till after 10:45.  Then, the band played the National Anthem and a song and got stuck!  It was impossible for them to leave as they would have made a real commotion.  So, they stayed till the end (around 2:00).  The cafeteria saved lunch for them and some were glad they got out of class for most of the day!  They sounded amazing as always.
 
Timothy had his first concert also this week.  He is playing the French Horn.  His band did great too!
 
 
 
Sallie also had a reader's theater (right in the middle of Kenyatta's speech)!  But we were there cheering her on because of course she is more important!
 
 
Here is Sallie as "Sallie Spine"
 
I got to teach Sallie's class this past week too.  It was not as scary as I thought it would be!  The kids were good and the day just flew by.  We had a great time.  Here is a picture of all the urchins.
 

Well, with all the commotion going on this week, we actually did get something done.  The part that is broken on the CT scanner was located in the states.  Our Medical Director was in Georgia and coming this way on Thursday, so we had it shipped to him to hand carry here.  It arrived last night (and him too) to the cheers of many!  Not really, as it was about 1:00 in the morning when he got here.  But, the technician we hired from the states stayed a few extra days so that he could test it and the guys are up there now getting it installed.  Hopefully, it will work as planned and we will get a test subject today to run a scan on.

The Technician (Jim) and the scanner
 
I also got to do some drawing this week.  I have been working on revising the ENT space with the doctors.  We are almost done with it and they are very happy.  They have a specialist coming this summer to stay long term and it sure would be nice to have this building operational.
 
We meet every week on Wed nights to have a bible study.  This week we were studying Daniel 5, "The handwriting on the wall."  Belshazzar sees a hand writing something on the wall and Daniel interprets it.  Belshazzar promises a purple robe and a golden collar and to be 3rd in the kingdom to Daniel if he can interpret the writing.  Daniel says to keep the gifts but interprets it anyway.  He says it means that Belshazzar's reign is over and he was found "wanting in the balances."  Belshazzar was killed that very night and the kingdom taken by the Medes.  God sees our actions and our hearts and inevitably interprets whether or not we "weigh" in. 
 
Today is the big race!  The pinewood Derby.  Timothy and Sallie have cars entered and it will be a very exciting time.  The school has a huge track with electronic gates.  The event starts at 8:30 and ends sometime around 3:00!  Then tonight, Trevor has all of his calculus buddies coming over for Pizza (does that mean that they only eat the square root of the radius of each pizza)? 
 
This week is Thanksgiving and the end of school (the kids are thankful for that)!  We are so thankful to God for showing us who He is and allowing us to serve.  We are also thankful for many things:  Family, friends, kids and so many blessings.  We are also thankful to you all who come to this blog to spend some time with us every week.  It is good to know we are not forgotten even though we are physically far away!
 
In His Hands,
Jullie T.

PS - Jim updated the "Project Page" (tab at the top) yesterday.  Please go and look at the update on all of the projects.





Saturday, November 10, 2012

And If Not....

Hello All,
The CT team has arrived!  They actually got it spinning the other day before they found out that there is a part that is broken.  They have tried to source one from the states to see if it can get here quickly (good luck with that one!) and have not had any luck.  Jim is going up there with the team to pull the old unit out and see what they can find.  These units are refurbished sometimes so they figure since it is already broken, they can't do much more damage - Right?!  Pray that they will see what the problem is and they will have the tools and knowledge to fix it.

The guys getting it ready to spin

Sallie had a show and tell of sorts recently in class.  They are studying mammals in science class and wanted an example.  So, pepper (the dog) and I went to show them an example of a mammal.  Here are a few pictures:

 


I get to teach in this (Sallie's) class next week for a day.  It should be like herding cats!  Please pray for me!

Trevor attended a college fair this past week at another close by school.  He is searching for the right one.  I am glad I am not in that position anymore.  What a tough job.   Can't believe he is less then 2 years from being gone from home.  We would really like to visit a school or 2 that he is interested in sometime next summer, but will have to wait to see what that might look like.

This week at our bible study someone mentioned the quote, "And if not."  Do you know what it means?  Apparently, all of Britain new what it referred to during WW II and through the prayers of a nation, men were surely saved. Below is what I found on a forum about it:
"And if not. . ." This was a message from the trapped British army on the beach at Dunkirk. It was an allusion to the words of Daniel's 3 friends, Shadrak, Mishack, and Abednego. When threatened with being thrown in the furnace unless they worshiped idols, they refused to yield, and professed their faith that the Lord would save them, "and if not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up." (Dan. 3:18) The British people immediately recognized the biblical allusion as demonstrating their soldier's resolve to stand to the end and not surrender. It galvanized them and launched the great rescue effort that became "the Miracle of Dunkirk." I believe this was recently mentioned in an article in World Magazine. The point of the article was that today, such a biblical allusion would fly over the heads of most people, as our society is now biblically illiterate.
It is very interesting how true this is.  Can you imagine sending out a 3 word message, "and if not" and the whole nation begins to pray because they know you are facing death.  God is good!

A pastor preached recently about "acknowledgment." We all want it. To be acknowledged for your hard work is just a basic humanness. But, we have set our sights too low if we are waiting on people to see what we have done and celebrate. We need to focus on God. Having acknowledgement from Him who created us is more important. To know that you are doing what he deems for your life is what we need to care about. Jim and I received an acknowledgment two weeks ago from a very important person. That was nice, but it is not all that is important. Keeping our sights on the real matter is what is important!

Here are a few more pictures that I took around here this week:

A nice catctus nearby
 
Steven the Flower guy
 
ENT:  Ear, Nose and Throat - this is a new project starting hopefully soon up by the existing Dental building.  They want to build a clinic because there is a full time audiologist coming in the next year.  The program that they want to establish will be precedent setting for Kenya I believe!  I will be keeping you up to date about that one as it continues.

Palliative Care (hospice):  The building is just about ready to be turned over to the client.  The Palliative care people will be very happy!  This coming week we may have a very important visitor here to dedicate this building as well as have the ground breaking ceremony for the BKCC wing and dedicate the CT Scanner and the Mother Child Health building.  President Kibaki may come.  We are waiting to see if it will be a reality, but at least if there is a possibility of him coming the road may get repaired! (I had some pictures but my Internet is not cooperating).

Bethany Kids Children's Center:  Things are progressing.  They are a little bit behind because of material delays, but all in all things are going well.  They have the site pretty clear now and will start soon on the footings.  Here are some recent pictures:

Ivan Stewart (BK Board Chair) visiting the site
(I had some more pictures, but my Internet is not playing nicely)
 
I am sure glad that you all (most of you) changed time again.  Now I have an extra hour to get the blog done so that it is there waiting on Saturday mornings!  We are 8 hours ahead of the east coast now.
 
Have a great week and please pray for Kibaki's visit and getting the CT up and running.
 
In His Hands,
Jullie T.
 
PS - A great song I can't get out of my head is "How He Loves" by David Crowder Band.  Great words!
 

 




 

 

Saturday, November 3, 2012

CT Scanner - The final Push

 
Hello All,
Well, the EMI team has departed.  They did so much work while they were here, it is amazing.  They had people scattered everywhere around the hospital.  Here is a picture of the team along with some of the E&F (Engineering and Facilities) team from the hospital:
 
The Whole team
 
The E&F team (some of us)
 
Sure hope they all got home safely.  One was going to Dulles when Sandy was going by.  I am sure some of them will be back and hopefully see some of their projects implemented or they can come back to help implement them!
 
Jim has been busy this past week getting ready for the CT Scanner technicians to come from the states.  The team here needs to have the basic electrical and mechanical hook ups done before next Wednesday.  We have waited almost 6 months just for the UPS (uninterruptable power supply) to get here to do the electrical hook up.  It finally arrived last week and, with some problems along the way, the company that supplied it helped hook it up.  It is a big one.  It will supply the critical hospital loads and the CT Scanner. Here are some pictures:
 
Loading it in the generator room
 
moving it (it was 1.8 tons!)
 
 
 
The team of 2 coming, will spend a week getting the CT operational.  Hopefully, things will go well and all the parts we need will be here.  If we have to delay because the parts need to come from the states we are in trouble!  Here is a picture of Jim working on the scanner:
 
 
They really let him do that??
 
Please pray that the guys coming will arrive safely and that the week will go well with all parts available!
 
We get short term doctor visitors coming and going all the time.  They sure are a blessing to this place with their skills and attitudes of "givingness" (is that a word)?  There have been some here recently who have really made a difference.  Thank you to all who come and go and leave your mark!
 
We had a potluck up at the motel this week for the missionaries.  We do this periodically and it is nice to see people who, because we are all working most of the time, we don't get to see.  The kids have a great time too.  Here are a few pictures:
 
 
 


We sure enjoy these people.  Thanks to the ladies who organize us to get together!
 
 
In the last month or so, there had been a rash of robberies here on lower station (below the RVA school).  Someone has been breaking in homes during the day and stealing electronics and cash and clothing.  The person was deemed to be a child or very small because they were getting through barred windows.  He was finally caught as he broke into a building at the school in the night!  He apparently got through an opening of 8" x 10"!  He was caught and said he was working alone, but that will remain to be seen.  We think we have not been targeted because we have the dog in the house and Rose is here all day.  We are very careful to lock doors even on the other side of the house if you are not in that area.  We left the laundry room door open once and a jar of kerosene was taken from its place!  It is a lot like Italy here in the sense that people don't want to harm you, they just want your stuff.  We just pray that they will come to know God loves them and will provide for them if they can trust (without the stealing)!
 
This coming week will be filled with CT Scanner operations (and through the weekend and on through Wednesday of next week).  Please keep Jim in your prayers as he is running on empty.  Once we get through this, we will take a few days off.  We are thinking about going to Uganda soon.  The kids' last day if school is Thanksgiving day (it is just wrong to go to school on that day)!  Mom comes in December, so times of rest are coming!
 
Have a great week and send us a note if you can (see the contacts at the top of the page).  I sure enjoy hearing from you!
 
In His Hands,
Jullie T.
 
 
 
 


 
 

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Awake to the Monkeys!

Hello All,
As promised, the EMI team arrived in full force on Saturday afternoon.  They have been everywhere for the last week gathering information and changing that into workable designs and plans.  They have had me running every second just to keep up with them!  But, I wouldn't have it any other way.  They are extending the Master Planning for the hospital in just one week in ways that we couldn't accomplish in a year.  They have been working on:  Mortuary, front end parking and landscaping including sidewalks, new Theater (surgical wing) expansion, physiotherapy space, New Outpatient Department, New TB clinic, New Emergency Department, Remodel of the clinic space, Storm water design, and Oxygen plant design (in a new space) with a program to change over.  Its a good thing there are 15 of them!  They have their final presentation on Tues morning and after that they will be gone (and I can breathe)!  I will gather them all together (that will be a feat in itself) sometime before they leave and get a picture.  It has been a real blessing having them here and seeing the work that they are doing.  This will enable us to build more buildings for the next 10 years! (Don't worry Mom, we are still coming home July of 2014)!

How did you wake up this morning?  By the dog wanting to go out?  That was me, but she was wanting to go out to chase the monkeys that were running across the roof!  It is a tile roof and they sure make some noise.  Here are a few pictures of them.  They are the little Sykes monkeys.

 
 
This is  a picture I pulled from the Internet so that you can see what they really look like

This week there was the first annual World Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Day.  Here is one link to information:
http://www.worldspinabifidahydrocephalusday.com/#!world-sb/h-day
Spina Bifida is a genital defect where the spine is not fully formed.  Sometimes these patients have hydrocephalus also which is where fluid is trapped in the brain cavity making it expand.  One of the causes is lack of folic acid in the mother at the very beginning of conception.  The Dr that gave a presentation on Wed. said that by day 26 of pregnancy if the defect is there, it can not be restored.   These kids can have the defects closed but they will always live with a disability.  Some can walk with crutches or help, some are in a wheelchair.  The neurosurgeon that is a missionary here says that in the west he may do 5 cases a year, but here they do 20 a month!  The kids come to get surgery but that is not the end of the story.  The mothers and the babies (or children) must be trained to live with the problem in their home towns.  I met another lady who, with the help of IF (International Federation of Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida), wants to build a guest house near the hospital to support the parents in their journey.  We are actively looking for a piece of land and then get a design and costing, etc, etc.  So that one day when the parents are released from the hospital, they can stay there for a time to be trained and gain knowledge from the other parents that have lived with it for a long time.  They are networking!  So, I can see another project on our event horizon!

We did a devotional this week on 1 Cor 12:12-27:

12 The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body — whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free — and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. 15 If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. 19 If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body. 21 The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!" 22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, 23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, 24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, 25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. 26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.
NIV

This is something we see all the time.  We work as engineers here surrounded by some amazing doctors.  But, we still have a role to play.  Not all of us have the same gifts, rather we are all made to serve Him in one way or another, but definitely not in the same capacity.  This passage give us encouragement that who you are is who God made you to be.  All you have to do is follow His plan for you!
We had a coo on Monday night too.  We have a weekly meet and greet on Monday nights for short termers who come here for 2 weeks to 6 months.  Usually, we are surrounded by doctors and nurses, but this past week we engineers outnumbered the doctors!  It was a good feeling not to be the square peg in that round hole!

Here are a few pictures I took this week of the crazy cat that lives outside:



 

The kids had an event last Saturday called Carnival.  They got dressed up with their big brother or big sister (they are paired with a High School kid) and played games in the gym.  Timothy went as Flame and his big brothers were the firemen and Sallie went as an Olympic bike rider.  I was just able to get pictures of them at the end so did not get them with their high school counterparts - Sorry:


Jim has been kind of elusive this week as he has been tied up with Bethany Kids issues.  He is running like crazy to deal with all the issues that come up in a project.  One of these was the fact that the water pipes that are buried are joined together by rubber.  As they are uncovered, the rubber is failing (it was being held together by the pressure of the ground around it)!  This causes water to be spayed everywhere and now we need to buy new pipe in order to complete the connections.  This is just one of about a million issues.

As I said before, the team leaves on Tuesday.  I will be glad (so that I can breathe) but will be sad because there will be a whole lot of work for us that are "left behind" to do.  Please keep them in your prayers as they work all weekend to finish up the plans and get the presentation together and they travel home.

In His Hands,
Jullie T.

 
 

 

Saturday, October 20, 2012

EMI Team has Arrived!

Hello All,
Well the EMI (engineering ministries International) team has arrived (partially) and the rest are due in about 2 hours.  That is why this will be brief today!
We spent all day (literally) yesterday going over programming issues (the needs of each of the departments that are listed on the scope of works for this EMI trip).  It was grueling but we gathered some essential information. 

Here is some of the team actually working!
 
We are meeting the rest of the 16 people today, getting them settled, and walking around the hospital to orient them.  Some have been on trips like this before, some have not.  We have a fire hose worth of information to share in a very short time.  They will work all week and then do a presentation of the final products a week from Monday or Tues.  Busy week ahead!
 
Here are some more aerial photos of the hospital and our house taken by a professional:
 
This is our house with the vegetable garden towards the top right.
 
The hospital - you can see the septic trenches heading down and to the right.
 
 
Jim has been crazy busy with the new wing getting started.  There are so many issues that come up, but we are hopeful that when they get settled in and in the groove, things will smoothen out. 
 
Timothy and I are heading out in a few minutes to try and catch our guitar lesson.  The man that is teaching will be leaving soon for 6 months and we want to get as much in as we can!  Here is a picture of Timothy that I took last week on the way there:
 


Hope you have a great week!  Just found out that my Mother is coming to visit in Dec - Yea!  The kids are looking forward to that (especially because we are going to get her to bring some chocolate chips and maybe a few Christmas presents)!

In His Hands,
Jullie T.

 


Saturday, October 13, 2012

Never tire of Giraffes!

Hello All,
This has been another crazy week!  I think I say that every time.  We went to Naivasha for a short break last Saturday with Timothy and Sallie.  There is a nice Indian restaurant there that everyone likes and then we went to one of the resorts to use the pool.  The kids had a blast and we got to relax with some friends while they swam.  It actually hailed on us as we were driving over the high country to get there!  Did not expect that!

This was the view driving into the resort area!  There were 7 of them.
I never tire of seeing the Giraffes.

Sallie and Becca
 
Sallie making a splash
 
A Beautiful place!
 
This week has been challenging in the sense that Jim and I are working hard to:  Get the contractor set up for starting Bethany Kids Peds Wing, organize for the coming EMI team, (including Jim going flying to take some aerial photos), help Trevor's class with Banquet Planning (to happen in Feb), help the procurement department reorganize their receiving and storage areas, lead some Bible Studies and feed kids at some point!  Makes me tired just to say it.  The AIM (Africa Inland Mission) pilot came up here last Wed to help us get some aerial shots for the coming EMI team.  Here are some photos from the air of Kijabe:
 
The Hospital Complex
 
Our house (large red roof).  Its a duplex and we are on the right.
 
Wow!
 
I have been hit 3 times this week with thoughts about how we should pray for those who persecute us.  That makes me nervous!  These all came in the form of bibles studies or devotions.  Jeremiah 29 talks about how the exciles were to pray for the people who took them as slaves.  That would be difficult to say the least.  But as they did this, God promised to help the Babylonians prosper as well as the exciles.  Mathew 5:44 says the "...Love our enemy and pray for those who persecute you."  Basically, it goes on to say that it is easy to love those who love you, but difficult to love those that you are not fond of.  How true is that!  But, that is what God wants us to do.   I think this goes to our leadership (local and federal) too.  We need to pray that the people chosen will be faithful and understand God's will for them.
 
 
Timothy and I are learning to play the guitar a bit.  There is a man here who is giving lessons on Saturdays, so we are headed off to his house soon.  It is fun to see Timothy getting better and loving it!
 
This Thursday is when the EMI team starts to arrive.  Please pray for their safe journey and for us as we coordinate all the work that they are going to accomplish here!
 
Have a Great week!
In His Hands,
Jullie T.