Friday, August 3, 2012

Loving One by One

I went on a few medical clinic trips during the first half of the summer with Sherry's team. Sherry runs an organization called Loving One by One. She has a children's home doing homeschooling called New Creation (I also taught P4 there) but she has a separate school at another site too. Ally, Laura, and I visited it one day. It was so awesome! All these kids are great! they walk miles to this house where the school is set up but the classes are maybe 15-20 students each which is a really good amount compared to over 50 students at most primary school classes.

this is the school's gate! the apples each say a student's name on it! awesome!

We cleaned and organized A LOT of books!

We helped this class study for their up-coming exam!

this is one of the outdoor classrooms

Sherry has bought new land and her ministry is growing! We also got to visit there one day too! She calls it Grace Land because it is a gift from God. The realitors were showing her swamp after swamp and she was about to give up on the dream until...



It is absolutely beautiful! the view is amazing and she was so happy the whole time pointing out where each building was going to go. There will be a school, homes for orphans with a house mom in each, a clinic, a guest home where teams will stay, a well  and a church both for the community to use, and a garden for crops and livestock. It seems they thought of everything! It is so cool.

When we got there the kids saw us in the big van and came unning after us so excited! they held hands and hung off of us the whole time that we were touring the land. They even prayed with us and sang songs. Then it started to rain so we took them with us down the road! It was so fun having all these kids laughing and singing in our van!




1 comment:

  1. Beautiful setting for the future school. It is a similar setting to the site of Zack's school in Gitega, Burundi - Gitega International Academy. I hope Sherry will be able to build soon!

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