It is hard to believe, but we are one week away from finishing our first term here at Waama Bible College. It seems like we just arrived here at Waama and already we are writing final tests and trying to get all the missing work and tests accounted for. Amazing. God's faithfulness has definitely been evident in so many ways. We continue to thank God for all of you and the vital role you play over here.Since my last update, things have continued pretty much the same.
Classes have continued to go well, getting easier every day. We are also making more and more friends and are becoming able to talk about things below the surface (as our lack of language totally inhibited it earlier). We are excited to be here and desperately want to be totally fluent in Swahili! God has been gracious to us in so many ways. He has especially been gracious with the weather, giving us lots of early rain and then a break this past week so the fields could dry out enough to plow them (with the tractor). The rest of the work is done by hand. In fact, the students have started planting today.
Our plans for Christmas include going to Uganda to visit my brother, Nate, his wife, Rhoda, and their family. We are very excited for this but are trying not to think about the 24 hour bus rides ahead of us! It will be good to get away for a while, have a change of scenery, and to visit with family over Christmas Break.
We do have a couple prayer requests you can be praying for...
- Praise that God has almost gotten us through one whole semester!
- Continued prayer for a vehicle. We have had some good leads, but they have all fallen through. We continue to trust God for the perfect vehicle at the perfect time.
- Prayer for Jesse and I as we go to Uganda. It is a very long, potentially dangerous trip. Pray for God's mercy on us. Our current travel plans are leaving this Friday and arriving Monday afternoon.
- Prayer for our visa/residency permit situation. We turned in our paperwork for our new residency permits over 2 months ago. They still have not been renewed and now our first ones have expired. Pray for wisdom and that God would grant us favor in the eyes of the government officials here.
Ben
