Road to Rwanda----Every Day Happenings

  I have not written in months and months.   For one thing I am tired teaching.   I still LOVE it and am not going to quit, but it takes more energy every year….not because of the kids, but because of me. Another aspect is the longer you are in a country, the more things just become “normal” and you don’t realize people might find them interesting.   Take last night for example.   Three of us teachers in the secondary school were taking the 8 high honor roll kids out to fancy eat, as we have each quarter all year.   The instigator of this has tried to make each quarter a bit more posh.   (He decided not to pursue the most expensive restaurant in the city which would have ended up costing almost $1000 USD for the night) but had identified a nice place.   Then the fun begins.   He had made detailed arrangements earlier in the week to have a venue outside of the bar (remember these were MS/HS kids) that would be set up elegantly.   He als...

Road to Rwanda----Spiritual Emphasis Week and War in Goma

 I want to write first about our Virunga Valley Academy Spiritual Emphasis Week. I felt moved this summer to start praying about having a spiritual emphasis week at VVA.  God worked it out, as always.  Mark Little Elk, a Native pastor, from my home area in Minnesota, contacted me about maybe visiting.  I passed it on to our Director and Mark will arrive next Saturday for 11 days.  I am so excited...and so are the kids.   Mark writes on FB: " I'm going to Africa! I fly out at the end of the week and will be there for 11 days. I will be teaching at a school in Rawanda for their spiritual emphasis week. I will lead three assembly times along with having devotion times throughout the week and talking about Naive American History in a social studies class. "To maximize my time I will also be teaching archery and training archery instructors so they can start their own archery program. Please pray for my travels and that there would be no issues getting the ...