The School

Wow, what an incredible day! We drove over to the Christian school today and toured the classrooms and dorms before getting started with our work for the day. This school is one of the top schools in the country, but is incredible primitive by Western standards. Oh, but the people are incredibly warm and very relationship driven.

We were treated like honored guests as we met the teachers and the Head Master of the primary school. He asked us to sit at his desk and sign his visitors book. His enthusiasm for teaching and changing the lives of young kids was uplifting and inspiring.

And the kids...the were the highlight of my day!!! They rushed toward me as we toured and surrounded me just to touch my face and hair. Their faces were like beacons in an otherwise barren and desolate country. The love of Jesus was so evident. I was in heaven! I took their pictures and then showed it to them on the camera and you would have thought God just dropped a piece of heaven down for them. They were so thrilled and just hung on to me as I tried to catch up with my group. I can assure you I will be spending more and more time with them. They were the most precious faces I've ever seen.

After out tour we were off to work on the new dorm. Our task for the week is to clean mortar off toilet stalls, sand and paint later in the week. You would think it just a bit crazy to spend thousands of dollars to fly half way around the world to work on bathrooms...but it is surely so much more. We had a ball serving Jesus today. We laughed until I cried and enjoyed every single moment. I suspect tomorrow I'll be a bit sore from the hard day of scraping, sanding and breathing in tons of dust, but I have no worries. I am loving life.

As I did devotions last night, God brought me to Psalm 113...v7 says, "He raises the poor out of the dust and lifts the needy out of the ash heap..." It reminded me that we are all blessed to be called children of God regardless of our economic circumstances...He loves us all the same. And verse 3 reminds us that we are to praise the name of the Lord "from the rising of the sun to its going down."

I'm looking forward to seeing where God shows up tomorrow. I hope to actually sleep tonight. I am living proof that it is possible to function with energy after 3 days of almost no sleep. For some reason, I can't sleep at night. But as the sun comes up and the cock crows, I bounce out of bed as if I had slept for days...my strength is not my own.

Well, must sign off...I type very quickly without review. Just hanging out on the Internet typing eats up a lot of my available usage for the day.

Peace to all of you. May God bless you richly. I know He is showing Himself so powerfully to me and it's only my 2nd full day in Tanzania.