A New School Year and Building Projects Continue

With the students back from break, it didn’t take long for them to be put to work. We have ten new classrooms that need cement stucco on the brick walls and cement floors. That takes a lot of sand hauled from the river, as well as water, and a lot of cement!

Murphy’s Law struck with a vengeance: the water line from our river trickled to a stop a couple of weeks ago, and it hasn’t been fully restored yet. Somewhere in the network of buried line is a build-up of sediment. So, the long lines of students walking from the river with water buckets on their heads - that was so common a sight our first years here - is once more the means of supplying water to the work projects. The truck has been present for the hauling of sand.

Then there is the matter of cement, which we’d been patiently waiting for over the past months. Well, did it ever arrive! Six truck loads, carrying over 800 bags, were unloaded by our wonderful, strong students.

Gary’s Bible Knowledge classes are in full swing, with the first weekly exams coming up. Joanne was sewing uniforms day and night to be ahead of things when her new Pre-Form English classes began the first week of February. So far, it is a small group, but we know that they will stream in continually throughout the year.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for your faithful support of prayers and finances. We have had very few injuries during all of this work, and the students are in high spirits. The chapel speakers have been bold and uncompromising as they desire to glorify God and see Idigima succeed. We know it is also because of your prayers that we see victories daily in the lives of these determined youth.

God bless you as you bless others,

Gary and Joanne Grenell