"We're Not Starving!"-Sunday July 17

The team called early this morning: Everyone is inviting them to meals-so they are not starving. On Sat they went to 4 preaching points & were only late getting to...4 preaching points (that is typical). Spent time in Sengele & April met her prayer partner,Tulinave Metewa who is the Evangelist for that PP. Discussions at the PP have been started re: the orphan education. Patty will have the official in-depth discussion later this week to get the program up & going with the HEAD committee/other educators/Evangelists. They are going to several more PP on Mon. Had dinner at Pr Nuru's along w/Phillipo & we are told she has such a warm personality the friendship is really growing (I believe they will hate leaving her!). Today Rick preached at the Secondary School at 8am to 600 students while April/Philippo & Pr Wallace sang "How Great Thou Art"-they all did the same at the main church at 10am. They all had chakula (food) at Beatrice's house & she is so excited to come to Harlan at the end of the month. April has another penpal-a teacher from the deaf school in Njombe. The confirmation students have received their Swahili bibles. At the time of the phone call they were testing the internet but were getting "timed-out" because they were in the middle of some downloads on window update but are still hopeful on the sucess of the modem. They were resting for a while & then heading to chakula cha jioni (dinner) at Issac Nyato's-government counselor for Kidugala Ward. He is also the music director/organist in Kidugala. There have been some talks in the past with him concerning a vocational school in Kidugala-this is still a possibility in the future (whatever God sees fit!)