It was a great Holiday, filled with many perfect gifts from our heavenly Father of whom all light and peace comes from. One was His tremendous presence throughout each moment of every day. Another was my one and only mother of whom I am honored to be a daughter of and hope to be one day an image of. Mom was here in Arandis till one lovely day after Christmas. As many of you know, she was a gift to each one she met. Between her endless love, tremendous physical packages of joy, gentle but healing massages, valuable time, wise words, beautiful voice, spirit-filled presence at church, home and much much more. The children, mother's of the ministry families and church friends are still asking about "Ms Ms Ms Mauuureeen" Another gift was the safe arrival of all the ministry children back from the their "families" over holiday. Three of the children will now stay possibly permanently in Rehabooth at new families homes for various reasons. These precious ones are still in my prayers and most importantly cradled within the loving hands of our capable heavenly Father. Still another gift was the meeting of some precious folks from Swakopmund (a nearby town) who Mom and I quickly became very good friends with. Their generosity and hospitality and friendship has been a true example of Christ to us. We are still connected, though not in close proximity at this time. In addition, the Lord has opened up opportunities for Christ-fearing Namibians and South Africans to become aware of Arandis and Children of Promise Ministries, strike an interest in the Children and pray for and some visit on a regular basis. There are some gentleman from the worship team that aided in a great time of worship around the camp fire in Arandis to close out the holiday. We hope to do some more of that! There is a team of young people from Shofar Church in Swakopmund coming this Saturday to teach the children to make recycled shopping bags to sell at their church and continue on their own. They have also played soccer with the kids, worshiped with them, spoiled them with Christmas gifts, and ministered to the mothers. It has been a tremendous honor to sit back and observe God's hands reaching out through Namibians to these families in need. My hope is for them to turn around and then see how they can also be valuable and enhance the lives of people that they meet. Still another gift was two new wonderful full-time teachers and two aids by the start of 2013. This is a great headstart! We always can use more help and Ms Nan would still like one more full-time teacher as the year progresses, but we are doing wonderfully with what we have gotten.
As for myself, at TKCA, the Lord is gracing me with flexibility and willingness to do whatever task is at hand. I am now teaching grade three full-time, all the subjects (except for Afrikaans). We have finished two weeks and now I can say that I am doing well and loving it. I have one reading student, and guitar students apart from the eleven in third grade. We'll be starting an "academic/social counseling" session (of sort) one on one with the upper primary children next week in the afternoons. We have some people coming in to help with afternoon classes and the third grade aid is taking care of after school for our class! God has brought help and it's really neat to see things working well this year. Of course their are gaps, but with His help there is also tremendous success.
I am enjoying playing guitar again with the kids and leading at church. One of my students is now playing with us on Sundays which is really amazing! As soon as I can figure out how to get my pictures from my memory card to my computer, I promise I will post them to the blog so you can see what we've been doing. Until then, be blessed in His presence and continue to be open to conversations and random acts of kindness to people that will bring change in their lives.
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