Midweek Update

Today the teen ministry had their big opportunity to present a drama to a large group. We will hear later this evening how that went. The children continue with their boundless energy to work as clowns, do dramas, and play with all the local children. It is before supper and some of us were able to shower in between the electricity breaker flipping off due to on demand hot water heaters. The crew who headed out early this am willnobe back until after supper.

Most of the team updates and highlights are shared after supper. So, the information I have now is very limited. All but the coastal crew is back. More are using sunscreen and a number of us have stomach cramps. Due to HIPPA, I cannot give specifics. The bottom line is, a few have missed somework due to abdominal distress. The medical team did see a young woman who nees to have immediate medical attention for asthma. We had nothing we really could do for her other than stress she get to a specialist, soon.

Yesterday, one of the women's home visiting teams spent time with a widow and other family members of a man who committed suicide 5 days before. He had also taken another wife. His 15 year old daughter refused to remain in the home with her mother because of so much sadness there. She did come talk with us and told us that she is a Christian. Her mother is not. Today we visited a 93 year old couple. They had had 4 children, all of whom had died. The man was selling off his tools to get money for them to live. They did recieve a home consisting of two rooms built by one of the local churches. We did challenge the women of the church who took us on the visit to think od the needs of this family and what could they do. The idea of carrying water all the way up the hillor washing the women did not seem obvious to them, butwas tous.

I appologize for the lack of photos on this post. If you would like to see pics of one family's experiece, go to www.boelkefamily.blogspot.com.

Until latter.