Kick, Run, Ball, Throw!

Hey All!

Hope you’re doing well across the deep blue. We just finished our second night of program. We’re two days ahead of schedule in our painting project, but the hard part started today (the actual painting part…). Up until now, we scrubbed the outside of 6 (out of 11) buildings, the rain sprayed it down for us (thanks!), puttied, sanded, and we started the primer. We’re about 1/5 done with that and then we’ll actually begin painting. If we finish the 6 buildings we’re working on, we’ll start the next 5. At this rate, we probably will get there, but it will be tiring!
In terms of English, a group spends time with the female care takers each day to work on their English and lead them in a Bible study. Then, in the afternoon, a team heads out to the school in the local village to “teach” a bunch of VERY excited students English. Then, during our evening program, we spend some time teaching the kids English (along with other fun things to be explained below). Last, three of us spend time helping a handful of kids who go to an English only school with their homework.
We are still making tweaks to our program, but it’s hard to tell who is enjoying it more- us or them?! We have six teams and spend time each night singing songs, hearing a Bible story and seeing a related skit, learning new sporty words (we’re using a sports team for our evening), and playing a fun game that relates to the words we learned that night (so far we’ve played steal the bacon and capture the flag). We finish off the evening together with another song, prayer, and a snack (today’s snack= animal crackers… mmmm).
So, that’s about it for now!
Please continue to pray for us as a few people felt sick today and needed to sit out and rest. It is very hot here and we need extra prayer for strength in the midst of the heat and little sleep.
We love and miss you all!
The Team 