Almost Complete

Well it is Saturday evening and we are showing the Jesus video again. Three of our sewing girls came and requested it, so we are showing it for the second time this year. We also have been having quite a few of the village young people coming to our video night so this is a good video to show. We have been showing videos every Saturday night; we have been showing Planet Earth to them and they enjoy looking at the various different animal species and the habits.

We have now only 5 fundis to finish the work. We were told on Friday that two of them will be leaving which will leave us with 3 to finish the jobs. The five are trying to finish the boy's bath house/toilet building and the septic tank that goes with it. After that is done all that is left to do is a 2 stall bathroom with septic and a septic that goes to a staff house. When these jobs are completed then all the fundis will leave. We have a plumber coming on Monday to connect to the 2" pipe line which we installed last year. The pipe we are tying in with will go to the dorm and the Bauman's house. We will then install the hot water tank that we will have at the dorm. We will have a fire built under it to heat the water. We will also install the drainage pipe at the girl's dorm to go to the septic. When this is done we will move the girls up to the dorm. Hopefully this will take place within the next week or two. We still need to paint the boy's dorm and the girl's dorm is half way painted. Time is running down and we still have lots to do. I am completed through September with the finances. I told Janet I need to work on October because of the time left to work here. In November she is planning on taking the staff to Kibidula to a series of meetings by James Raferty of Light Bearers ministry. I am hoping while there to get the help of the girl who helped me last year with the books; so that I won't have to go later in December. My flight leaves on December 22. Janet still hasn't gotten her flight yet. Frank said he was going to try and get her on my flight but she doesn't want to wait that long. I said if she gets a flight earlier in December I would like to change my flight also to come home a little earlier. She said she would email Butler travel and have her check. I am not sure what will happen but I want to get the books completed to a point so that it won't take a lot to finish.

Here is a quote from Desire of Ages which has me thinking alot lately and I pray that you will see the importance of it also: "He who would confess Christ must have Christ abiding in him. He cannot communicate that which he has not received. The disciples might speak fluently on doctrines, they might repeat the words of Christ Himself; but unless they possessed Christlike meekness and love, they were not confessing Him. A spirit contrary to the spirit of Christ would deny Him, whatever the profession. Men may deny Christ by evilspeaking, by foolish talking, by words that are untruthful or unkind. They may deny Him by shunning life's burdens, by the pursuit of sinful pleasure. They may deny Him by conforming to the world, by uncourteous behavior, by the love of their own opinions, by justifying self, by cherishing doubt, borrowing trouble, and dwelling in darkness. In all these ways they declare that Christ is not in them. And "whosoever shall deny Me before men," He says, "him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven." {DA 357.2}

I also pray that you will contemplate on these things and examine yourselves.

Signing off from Mago, Tanzania…

Deniece

Listen to the Lord

It has been a while since I have written. I have no excuse except that I have been busy, not enough battery time on my computer and I have been real busy. And another reason is that we have been real busy. We have completed two staff houses enough to where the families have moved in. The girl's dorm needs paint in the rooms and water to the bathroom and we can move into it. The boy's dorm will get glass this week and then it will need painting. The bathroom for the boys is getting the floor poured tomorrow and then the fundis will start the brick work. We have two bathrooms to complete and three septic tanks and our building projects will be completed for this year. I am getting pictures and will put them in a power point presentation upon arriving back into the states in December. At the beginning of the building projects we had nine fundis working. Three more came a couple of weeks later and so for about five months we have had 12 fundis. Now we have five fundis working here. The others have gone back to Kibidula to work on projects there. We need to tie up loose ends before leaving in December so that is what we will be doing in November and December. In fact, we have already started to tie up a few loose ends already.

Some of the things I have been doing is: painting window frames, doorways and doors, walls and varnishing the bunk beds. I am working on tables for our cafeteria. We have 6 table tops that have been purchased and we have had our carpentry class make 6 tables that the tops will go on. Hopefully they will be completed in a week or two. I have taken off 14 doors and have helped to paint them and have installed them again. I work on any plumbing problems that come up with the water line going to the fundis. I have helped with laying out of some of the buildings early on and even with the bathrooms that need to be done now. Again, one of my jobs is teaching English Monday through Thursday for about an hour to an hour and a half; and also being girl's dean; I do the finances, also. Other things I do are too many to list and fills in a lot of my time and they are the things that Janet needs me to do to help her with projects she is working on and also at times retrieving items from the container, church, her room, ect. These jobs are small in and off themselves, but if you can imagine keeps me busy along with all the other things I have been given to do.

If I repeat myself from previous blogs, please forgive me. It has been a long time since the last blog that I don't remember what I wrote. I have been staying down at the girl's dorm with the girls and it has been a good experience. The girls and I have got a good relationship going; I am also their English teacher. We have a good time together. But it is hard to communicate with them when there is not translator to help out. It would be easier on everyone if they could speak English or I speak Swahili.

I have been reading "Empowered Living" by Jim Hohnberger and have been trying to listen and obey the still small voice of the Lord directing me all through the day. This is a lesson we all need to do and Jesus is there just waiting on us. One day last month I went down to the school; Carolyn was with me. When we finished the task at hand I was going to come back up the hill a certain way. A "thought" came into my head to check in my room at the make shift dorm and go home a different way. I obeyed, and it was a good thing. One of our workers 2 ½ year old son was getting water from our spring at the school and had fallen head first into the water and couldn't get out. I ran over, grabbed his shirt and jerked him out of the water. I had lost my balance in the mean time, but Carolyn was there to hit his back and he started spitting and coughing and everything turned out. If I had gone home the original way that I was going, we would not have heard or seen Ema and he would most likely have drowned. There has been other times when I didn't listen and it came back to "bite" me if you will. I am learning, though, and it is exciting to see how the Lord is willing to direct if we are willing to follow.

Signing off from Mago, Tanzania

Deniece