Project completion

Can you sleep peacefully when you have an unfinished project? There’s something about this project hanging over our heads that’s making it difficult to rest. So…. After we spent a few hours walking around in circles, we kicked into gear and started writing out a plan of action. Admittedly, we are overwhelmed by the tasks before us. There’s much too much work for the small amount of staff that we have, and there is a shortage of funds to boot. That’s why this is such a challenge.
Tony has only part of the materials needed to do the job. The electrical needs to be completed, a drop ceiling installed, floor, kitchen and bathroom tiling, painting and basic organizing of the 32 bed center. Add to that, Catherine is teaching “Choose to Wait” with the center Director, Julius, in local schools every day, and setting up information meetings with local, interested teachers and professionals regarding the program. Oh, and that’s not enough to keep us busy. There is an entire room floor to ceiling full of boxes of clothes and bedding to be distributed to the needy in the community. Unfortunately it requires us to sort through and organize the clothes for sizes before we can distribute them.
We’re exciting about the potential of this center. Oshikuku and the surrounding communities are very open to the message of “Choose to Wait” and see the need for servicing the orphan and vulnerable children here. The center is already a lighthouse to the children in the area. Every day scores of children are here, playing in the yard and on the playground. Children’s clubs are held regularly, teaching the children of God’s love. Julius is getting more invitations to teach in local schools than he can feasibly handle. Please pray for Christian teachers to step up and be trained in the “Choose to Wait” curriculum so we can accommodate all the hundreds of students that need to hear this life-changing message of sexual purity.