School

Grace Primary School - "Nursery, Kindergarten & Daycare."

(Taken in Mbale while Martha was buying groceries...I'd like to get pictures of the inside of Pal's, because it's quite a trip. There's a central shelf in one half of the store that's filled with food (plus food on either side of it), and a main shelf on the other side that's full of Sleeping Baby oil to rub on skin, and other hygiene products.)

Martha and Amy have taught classes off and on at the Alamacar ("Alamachar") primary school, just a couple miles from Nakaale. It's where most of the P1-P7 (?) Nakaale students go. The Wright kids attended at Alamacar for a while, too, but it's hard when the classes are taught in everyone else's second language, which even many of the teachers struggle with. Martha offered to teach a couple of her kids' classes, but then there was the problem of the teachers just not showing up that day - or week - so she was saddled with all their classes. Now she's back to teaching "religious education" classes, though, and has asked if I want to help teach a P6/P7 class when I'm there (the school mentioned they'd like more people to do it). That would be quite a fun (and scary :) ) experience, so I'd like to try it.

Anyway, it's good to be reminded how God can use any situation for his church. Here's what Martha said about Alamacar in her last email: "It's pretty fun. The place is so un-together you can do just about anything! So maybe somehow corruption in the educ. system here can lead to the Gospel being proclaimed. You never know what the Lord is going to do!"

It's true! These kids are getting good English practice, positive attention, and they're hearing where to find the "living water" in a climate of drought.