Just a brief update. Can't believe we have only been back for 17 days, it seems so much longer. We certainly seemed to have fitted a lot in!
Just looking at the prayer requests from the last blog, feedback as follows on those four items:
- School principal - we have interviewed a wonderful lady who came out of the blue just after this prayer request. She seems ideal - waiting for her to sign a contract, so keep praying on that one. This also marks a first for us - never interviewed a school principal before!
- The meetings with the staff, teachers etc took 6 hours (with a 20 minute break for a bowl of rice!). Despite the length, they were positive and productive - God is good.
- The tropical storm came - torrential rain and flooded roads. Couldn't go anywhere.........
- .......Which is why the meeting with the accountant was cancelled - result!
For the coming weeks we have to focus on financial planning for the next 12 months. Not easy when the only regular income is for child sponsorship, which only covers a small portion of our costs, and the rest is reliant on generous donors.
So prayers please that God will continue to provide and that we will be wise with the income he is entrusting us with.
Thanks to some very generous donations from members of St Andrew's congregation - you know who you are - we are already looking at ID for the staff and employing professionally qualified security guards as one of our priorities is to address security at the school. (So important for the safety of the children and the staff because of the area in which we work).
We have mentioned before that one of the things we struggled to get used to was the fact that all police and security guards (and pretty much everyone employs them), carry guns. It is a fact of life here that we have to accept.
What has made us both roar with mirth this week is that the firm of guards we are about to employ are called 'SHOOTERS'!
With love and prayers
Sue and Stan
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