We are quite spoiled here in America. We have all the tools we need to do just about anything we want. We even have a riding lawn mower to cut our grass! At the orphanage, Mark, Christie, Kari, Amy and several others "plowed" an entire field with hoes and then "disked" it by breaking the clods of earth with rakes! Needless to say they were quite tired at the end of two days of this kind of labor in that kind of heat! But they were happy to serve with these very joyful people who truly do not know any other kind of life!
They understand that two "Shermer" bags are at the airport in Freetown. One contains the fence posts (thanks for your prayers as the grounding rods will now complete the fence!), and the other was emptied of its contents. Kari told Pastor Peter when she knew that her bag of clothes hadn't arrived that "Maybe God knows someone needs them more than we do". Who knows what God intended for those clothes and those supplies when He had us pack them to go over to Jonathan's House? We believe someone stole the contents - but God may have had another destination in mind all the time. We'll never know til we get to Heaven!
Mark, Christie, Kari, Amy, Jordyn and Pastor Peter are all in the Banana Islands at this time. They are touring a bit of Sierra Leone and getting a history lesson and learning about some of its Culture before they come home. They will visit Freetown on Sunday and Monday and then take off at 2:15 a.m. Tuesday (so much for sleep!!) for their 24-hour journey home. They are due to arrive in Minneapolis at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday evening, June 10th. It feels like we just said good-bye and now they are getting ready to come home.
Thank you for your prayers throughout this journey. Please continue to pray for Christie as she goes back to Bo to minister to those precious children there. She has already remarked that it will be hard to leave them in October - her heart is definitely involved with each one of them!!
Thanks,
Karen
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