Hello to All from Bo!
I'm sorry that this final update will need to be brief: the electricity is quite sporadic this evening (Wednesday) so our Internet connectivity is going off and on.
It's been another wonderful week on all counts (though we can tell that fatigue is catching us with us a bit). The classes continued with each teacher sharing victories and joys as the children "connected" with different areas of the curricula.
Many, many songs sung, prayers prayed and smiles shared--we are so blessed and we bless our Lord to have been a part of this.
The skys opened up today and we finally got a full sense of "the rainy season"--clean, incessant rains making the dense vegetation in the surrounding area all the more green and gleaming (and muddy).
On Thursday evening we will have the send-off celebration with the traditional agenda of talent contributions from the children, comments from the staff, awards from the team and many prayers, hugs and tears.
Please continue to pray for the team as we depart very early Friday morning; we hope to enjoy stopping at a couple notable sites in Freetown before taking the ferry across to the airport--we will be taking buses, boats and planes for over 36 hours (separating into two groups in London) to get back home to our family and friends on Saturday afternoon in
I know you are looking forward to having your loved ones back home--they are returning with pictures, stories, full hearts--and a lot of dirty laundry :)
Thank you for your support; you can all be proud of this team as, by God's grace, we have navigated through the most critical events this ministry has faced in its 10 year history. I also know I speak for the entire team in having been honored to interact with and be ministered to by Bishop John Yambasu as he closed the evening Vespers prayer meeting on Tuesday.
Your Brother In Christ,
Derek Reinhard
UMVIM CRC Team Co-Leader
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