Sewing Class Bursting at the Seams

Sorry for the play on words, but if you were here you would have to agree. We have 22 girls in both our sewing classes on campus. We need to put the girls into a new location where they can consolidate their space and food. We need the house some of the girls are staying in and the room the other girls are staying in. So, we are going to use two of our classrooms to house the girls. They will be right next to each other and will be able to utilize same areas in kitchen, bath area, toilet area, etc. Their food will be combined and will be documented how much they have put in and taken out and then we will assign a couple of the girls to cook each of the meals. Right now they are all responsible for their own food and fixing it. But it is getting to be too big a project to have 11 fires going at one time or having the girls stand in line to wait to fix their food. We have a cafeteria and kitchen area that they can use at the school so we are going to implement it this week.

We have been so busy here; getting bricks, sand, gravel for our buildings. We have the walls up on 3 buildings and the walls will be started this week on our fourth building. Once the walls are done on the fourth one, the fundis will be assembling our metal trusses for the rafters and then our metal roofs will go up. I think we will be putting up T & G (tongue and groove for those who don't know what T & G is) wood slats for our ceilings in these four buildings for they will be housing people and we need a ceiling to keep the temperature warmer in winter and cooler in summer.

We have the Bowmans coming in about two weeks and we are really looking forward to them coming. Time is really flying quickly, and it really does when you are having fun or when you are busy. I guess you can say we have some of both – fun and busy times. Anyway, the Bowmans will be living in a room off of our house until their house is ready.

Janet has just left to go to Mafinga to pick up 13 bunk beds for our girls. When we told the girls, there were a lot of smiles and hi-fives being done. Some of these girls are sleeping on mats or the floor. So this is really exciting for them. The Lord has really been working on campus and is blessing the work we are doing here. We are not without troubles. Satan likes to do his work too, but greater is He that is with us then he that is in the world. One of our springs, the one that houses our drinking water has either dried up or there is an issue with it where it is producing hardly any water, and what is coming has a foul taste. So we have to boil water to drink until we can dig up the tank and see what the problem is.

The Lord has never promised us life without problems, but He has promised that He has provided a way to get through it. So it is in each of our individual lives, we may have problems, but the only safe way to get through is God's way. Trusting in Him and doing things His way we will survive. Life may seem full a problems or just one big problem, but God has the answer for each and every one. Look to Him, talk to Him and He will direct your path.

Gotta get back to work.

Signing off from Mago, TZ, Africa…

Deniece