End of school year

Greetings. Wow we have had some success at posting photos tonight so have gone overboard a little perhaps and given you a glimpse of the last few days. We hope you enjoy the pictures.
On Friday was the end of year breakup for the school, held this year down at the new church. It started at 9.10am which is very good for Ugandan time and finished around 3pm. It was again a great occasion with each class presenting 3 items. Parents continued to arrive during the concert and by the end there were about 400 there.I had received a text message from Pastor John early on Friday morning (like 5am) saying he couldn't be there so could I please stand in for him, so I had to give a 'spiritual' message to the school and parents, a rather daunting task but it went OK I think. At the end, back at school, the children got the shoeboxes Marilyn & I had prepared and they generally seemed very happy with them. The village children particularly liked getting the sweeties, amongst other goodies. During the afternoon Piet almost fainted and had to be helped back home, he is still not right and on Sunday morning he was in immense pain so went to the hospital to be checked out. He has some 'gravel' in his gallbladder but is not being operated on yet as the pain has subsided somewhat. He has not fully recovered from his food poisoning so continues to be lacking energy. Mind you, on Saturday he needed to drive one of the workers to the hospital as he had caught his hand in some machinery and had cut it off. It was only Piet's intervention which stemmed the bleeding and kept him alive. The worker has had his arm taken off just below the elbow so please pray for him for healing and for his fellow workers to recover from the trauma. We had been talking, only on Saturday morning, about a programme of 'Safety First' for the workplace so this will be a good lead in.
Sunday morning I got another message from Pastor John that he was going to be unable to come to church so again I had to give the message. People may be getting sick of hearing from me!!I am running out of 'messages' though God seems to provide something each time.
It is strange how little things can upset. At lunch time on Sunday one of the plates we used to feed Raghma was dropped and broke and we both felt quite down about that, it was as though another part of her had gone. However we had a delightful time with Rhode today, she is close to standing, with support, on her feet and is almost giggling now. She has a growly voice she uses sometimes too which is quite funny.
Today was the first day of the holidays and the boys had fun all morning, and half of the afternoon too, playing in the sand making mud pies as the picture shows. The girls were more sedate in making houses, they weren't by any means quieter as they can still argue full voice, but they didn't get anywhere nearly as dirty. Marilyn is spending the next two nights in the girls house as Marjorine has 2 days off so we will both be kept busy (as usual). It is now getting late so I'd better head for bed, please uphold NACMU in your prayers as this is a potentially stressful time for many and please pray for an extra portion of patience and wisdom for us.
Until next time
God Bless