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 the morning.  This year they have decided to do their online classes at home, so I had not seen them since last spring, although we have chatted online.  They  came for lunch 2 weeks ago and we got to talking.  They wanted to know if we could meet for Bible study.  Of course I said "no"..haha....just kidding. Talk about a teacher's dream, being asked to lead teenagers in a Bible study.  We met today and they were so thankful.  I said, sure we can meet once a month.  They told me no, they wanted to meet at least every 2 weeks. Wow....teenagers asking you to study the Bible.  How much better do we want it to get?  I hope your Thanksgiving is as full of blessings as ours.