Roger and Gale:  Thanks to all of you who are reading this blog and praying faithfully for us.  We feel your prayers!!!!  Roger’s day began after breakfast.  He, Frank, and Scott worked on wiring a new laundry room for the home.  They successfully completed everything today and will turn the power on tomorrow.  The drywall will begin and hopefully the appliances will be in place by the end of the week.
Gale was all over the place today.  I did kitchen and bathroom duty after breakfast.  Then I was set to scraping a wall by my boss, Teegan.  As others joined me we finished a long wall and another wall, and another wall, and another wall. Then we began painting (white/yellow washing).  My team which had John Benner as team leader, both Tylers, and Paul finished more than Dave expected of us.  Shout out for us!    We then did a quick shower before joining everyone at the playground for our Olympic Theme Night.  Before our festivities began, we gave each child a t-shirt.  Emmanuel Ministries has never had for their staff or children t-shirts with an Emmanuel logo.  Everyone was so excited.  See the photo!  The olympics were great and it fun to watch the kids!  The kids loved the obstacle course, the discus (paper plate throwing), bean bag catapult (try it over your head lying on your back) and many more games.  They loved the candy and their medals which said Champions for Jesus.  Tonight as we were putting kids to bed, they hated taking off their medals.

Tonight Ellen, Khalia, Samantha and I had the privilege of putting girls to bed.  No one from our group had been able to do that yet because they start their bedtime routine at 6:30.  Do you think it would be different from the boys?  Well….the room moms gave us the shampoo, soap, and sent us to the bano.  Eight or so little girls in the shower and the shower over flowing and the water pouring out into the hall, Gale frantically plunging.  Again I think if you look up the definition of chaos in the dictionary you would find a picture of bedtime/bathtime at Emmanuel.  Samantha and Ellen took turns reading Clic, Clac, Muu with a constant chorus of “a ver.”  We are getting more comfortable with the kids which meant hugs and kisses all around.

It has been a wonderful experience serving Christ here. Last night, Khalia curled up next to me and asked, “How can we leave?”  We will all be very sad to leave here.  Our family is already talking about coming back.  Sean, Alice, and Tyler, can you say, “Christmas?”