Pilgrims’ Progress

As a family we’ve been asking God what work He has prepared for us to do while we travel. We’ve been flicking off emails to a few *projects* that have caught our attention.
Mostly we get no reply. Occasionally we get a polite denial.
Yesterday we received the most promising answer yet:

We’d be delighted to welcome you to K***t and spend time at our
school. It is particularly good for us when we have experienced second
language teachers to give advice and help us improve.

Although our teaching is just in the evenings, we hope that by the
time you are here, we will have our day learning centre up and
running. Here we hope to have learning activities, art and craft, life
skills and health education going. We are still in early stages of our
project but you can track our progress at the school blog.

I think it perfectly possible for your older children to help. My
niece (12, Scottish) was here for a few days and she turned out to be
quite an inspired young teacher.

How exciting is that?

We’re going to need a miracle. So this will be a good place to link to the Seeing God page in the sidebar;-)

The nurse from our medical centre just called with the news of which vaccinations we need and how much they will cost. Never mind the Hepatitis A or B, the typhoid, polio, cholera, rabies or malaria - I was still reeling from the shock of the Japanese encephalitis numbers. “You’ll need three vaccines each at a cost of $115 per vaccine” I’m not sure if my brain was too numb or if the number was just too big to compute, but as I say, I didn’t keep up with any of the other figures she proceeded to relay to me. Not quite true, I wrote down four numbers - phone numbers. She suggested ringing round to see who would do the best deal. Either she was feeling very sorry for me and was just trying to make me feel better, or she truly believes at least one of those travel clinics will do a discount for the privilege of jabbing ten people, eight of them children. Can’t you just see them lining up to get to practise on children who wriggle and cry and scream and bellow and just generally freak out? Maybe we’ll need two miracles!

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