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Nov - 2023

Road to Rwanda----Staffing and Bible Study

 I just inherited 7 more hours of teaching per week.  One of the Rwandan teachers just got accepted to a school in Ottawa for her masters degree and is leaving at the end of next week.  We have to divvy up her classes and that means I get 7 extra hours of 7th grade English. This is the second staff who has left this year for further education.  And the grade 5 teacher is recuperating from health issues in Kenya (her home) and will not return this year.  The director and his wife are in the States just having had surgery for breast cancer.  We are SHORT STAFFED.  Don't you feel like one of these positions is the place God wants you?  It is a lovely school in a lovely country with really great kids ....most of the time.  (Can you tell that all of us are just kind of hanging on until Christmas break, waiting for a bit of a rest.) And then you have those high points.  There are a group of 3 girls who last year had online high school classes here at VVA.  I had devotions with them in th