Well, after many long delays, the 2008 school year at MICS will finally begin!!!! The rain has delayed delivery of building supplies.....unfinished roof, no doors, and no windows......BUT.... the windows and doors are waiting for the road to dry and should be delivered sooooon(-: So, as you can see from the attached pictures the building that was to house the classrooms is still not usable. However, God has provided the insight to convert some of the rooms in the wooden house for classroom use. As you know, there are to be 5 classes this year (Reception (Kindergarten)and Grades 1, 2, 3, and a 4/5 combination. Soooooo .... our dining/kitchen room and living room will be 2 of the classrooms, as will the 2 corresponding rooms at the Sakala end of the building. The room that was Hammes's kitchen/dining area will be the 5th classroom. The two bathrooms that are outside on our end of the building will become the "Boy's and Girl's Restrooms" because the rains have caused the soil to collapse into the holes dug for the toilets at the new school building.
God got the first truckload of rafter lumber and roofing sheets through the muddy road from Choma one week ago today.... and today and a good portion of the roofing is now in place. The "big truck" went to Choma on Friday to collect the remainder of the roofing sheets, window panes and doors but has yet to return. (Word has it that even the road between Choma and Lusaka is getting worse because of the rains, and of course all supplies come from Lusaka ultimately).
Today is sunny and the teacher from near Lake Kariba was finally able to get here......two bridges and part of the road between Batoka and Lake Kariba have washed out making her travel "very interesting". We are so glad she made it as it was a rough trip for her. We have had at least three teachers come for interviews, accept positions and then go home and decide it is too wet, muddy and rainy to come every day so they have failed to show up for the starting of school.
God is making a way as we begin this week. Early this week we saw no way to begin but now the classrooms are ready in the MICS Wooden House and the children will arrive tomorrow. We are an "innovative school".....innovative is in our name and we are excited to be using an innovative plan to begin the 2008 school year in Macha.
Please continue to pray for us as we walk through this interesting and challenging process.
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