Another full-on week

Greetings again, another full-on week has passed. Last Friday night we had a quiz night for the children which was great fun involving 30 children in teams. Saturday morning was clean-up day, Matthew drew the short straw of cleaning outside and he wiped down all the posts on the veranda then decided to clean the barge board. One of the photos shows him using his initiative to save time walking up and down the ladder by using a string to get his bucket of water to him. It was fine until the string broke....
During the week we have had a team from Smallpoint Baptist Church in Maine USA here and on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings they took a Vacation Bible School for our children and children from the nearby villages. About 80 children took part each day and they thoroughly enjoyed the teaching and especially the music. The children have been singing the songs all day, every day since. The final chapter of the programme was today at Sunday School ( which gave us a week off from preparation) and we presented one of the songs in church today.
On Wednesday we had Owen's sponsor, Antje, here for the night with her daughter Tabea and a friend Eva. It was good to see them again.
Thursday evening was rather special. Because of the success of the quiz night the previous Friday, the children wanted to hold a quiz night where they asked the questions of the Aunties and Uncles. They spent two days preparing questions on six different topics to five teams of adults. Some of the adults were quite unruly and tested the children (no prizes for guessing who, Piet) but it was a fun night and gave the children a taste of what was needed to organise an event and how difficult it was to control people especially when they don't listen. I have to boast however that team KeJeWa (Kevin (Uganda), Jerome (Switzerland), and Warwick (NZ)) were the winners on the night thanks to a stinking bonus maths question which was too difficult for anyone else.
On Thursday night also we cared for our latest addition to our family, a baby boy, Aron, about 1 month old weighing only 2.3 kgs when he arrived. We are taking it in turns to care for him at night, he seems to need feeding every two hours at the moment so we can't do more than one night at a time. We also had him here last night and he is already putting on weight.
Friday night was 'George of the Jungle 2' at the Girls Family Unit so all-in-all it has been quite a full week. One week of the holidays to go so I think we will make it. We are likely to be involved in some workshops with the teachers this week though no definite days have been committed yet.
Finally, a very special prayer request. Hannah next door is nearly 12 yrs old and she has been diagnosed with a form of cancer. It seems to have been caught early but she will probably need some chemotherapy and there is a good chance that it can be eradicated. Please pray for her during this uncertain time, for wisdom for those who are treating her, and that the side effects of the treatment are minimal.
Well that's enough for now, until next time
God Bless