The Lessons of the Day

Today was a day of learning. Greg, Becky, and I had the privilege of learning the finer points of making chapati. Our lessons in the average day of domestic care for a Tanzanian woman were not finished. We joined Elisabeth as she taught us the finer points of hand washing our clothes. Betha and Jonas also joined in the teaching as we finished our washing.

Bonnie left to teach at 10 AM. She taught a morning session and an afternoon session. The morning was filled with science lessons, celebrating God's creation, and a little "seed growing" exercises. The afternoon was filled with bible lesson and crafts as the pictures demonstrate. The children loved the sun catcher project which quickly turned into a necklace or jewelry creation as the pictures show. Some said that they were Masai. Also, the children love the coloring books that were created for the week. Tomorrow Bonnie finishes her lessons and crafts with a special surprise for the children.

Greg, Becky, and I learned the lessons of life in rural Tanzania. Again we were delayed in going to the farm. Then, we had delays in getting the materials that we wanted. But we finally were able to finalize the plan for the water system. Tomorrow we finish the project with the Lord's help. Praise the Lord! the Grundfos pump arrived from Dar Es Salaam this afternoon. Mr. Ernest Mzijay began immediately to prepare it for installation tomorrow. He has been a great asset to the project. We traveled to the Kidete and leveled the sight for the tank. Everything is ready to put the pieces of the puzzle together tomorrow. Join us in praying that tomorrow afternoon the people of Kidete will be getting clean, cold drinkable water from the Daily Bread Life Children's Home Farm well.

Near evening, Greg, Becky, and Sadeke returned to the children's home for repairs and evening devotion time with the children. Becky led the devotion tonight. Mpeli and Floyd went about gathering the last minutes needs of the tank part of the well project. Again, Mpeli said to me, "Now you know why we may go to town and spend hours on something so simple." The lesson of patience continued. The best and most unique reason for not having our order ready was...the pipe was at a Muslim shop and they were at the mosque. Again, we have to wait until tomorrow for the final piece to the puzzle. We continue to learn the lessons of patience. We continue to learn the lesson of everyday life of our partners in developing countries especially in the rural areas. But, we continue to discover persistence with patience and the necessity to trust in the Lord for all things.

Thank you for your prayers. We look forward to tomorrow and the great opportunity of a dream realized--water for Kidete because of the Living Water of Jesus Christ.