4th Week of School

We're midway through our 4th week of school and things are still looking good! We're still healthy, united and in good spirits. We even got a chance to call home this past weekend and talk for a few minutes, although when people tried to call us using phone cards we couldn't hear anyone on the other end. We'll have to figure out why that is happening. They're building a larger cell tower in Farranah which is only 5km from here so hopefully we'll even have good reception soon!

Pastor tested positive on Sunday for malaria, but it hasn't really slowed him down too much yet. We think he's had it so many times that he just knows how to deal with it. We both had a bit of a cold/sore throat early this week but we're pretty much back to normal now. JeJe's leg seems to be pretty well healed and she has no trouble walking around campus, so praise God for that answered prayer!

The kids seem to get sick quite often. Each of us sends about 4-5 kids home too sick to stay in class each week. Mostly they get fevers, some malaria some just illness, but some of them seem to linger and pop up again every couple of days. If you could please pray for the health of our students that would be a big blessing for us and them!

Now that we've been here for a few weeks and we've really gotten to see what M4 missions is and it's purpose we can really compare it to our expectations before we came. M4 for those who don't know, is the 1,581 different tribes, villages and peoples still left in the world who still have no accessibility to the gospel whatsoever. The goal of M4 missions is to reach every one of those places, share the gospel and make disciples. Pastor Joshua was given the vision of the school to go along with his ministry and so he built the school here in Sambouya near his first "church." I use quotes only because it is nothing like the buildings we're used to. It is round and open air under a straw roof, just like meeting places in other
villages, so that it can be easily duplicated by the villagers.

Right now our focus is mostly on teaching, but as we get more into the school year we're hoping to spend more time in Bilingkoro, learning the language and trying to share Christ with our neighbors. Right now the task seems very large, but we're still hopeful that it will all be done.