Road to Rwanda----Back to School

School starts Wednesday, August 20. I will teach 6^th grade language, 9^th grade World History, 10^th and 11^th grades AP Comparative Government and Politics, and a Digital Media Course in Christian Storytelling. The last course, specifically, is a bit laughable. At 72, digital media is not exactly where I can shine. But I want to share our school, Virunga Valley Academy. I want to showcase our students in hopes that we can facilitate their attendance in a foreign university. I also want to use it to recruit teachers to our school. (All overseas schools struggle with filling their roster. Praise the Lord that we have 6 new teachers this year, and they are not just bodies filling spots, but rather are excellent educators which will be a blessing to our community: 4 from Kenya, 1 from Uganda and 1 from Ghana). Students also need exposure to subjects involving technology like this and listed on their transcripts to make them appealing to universities. I used AI to outline the course and we will just learn together. The AP course is also always demanding, but having taught my first AP course last year and having the students pass, is a great encouragement to all of us.

Our summer was fine. We enjoy time with our kids and grandkids, which is the reason we even go through the exhaustion of making the trip. However, our old old beater of a car quit and we replaced with a van RV to retire into (not necessarily anytime soon, but sometime). That meant money….and more money. We also continue to need prayers for the working out of the house in FL from our parents that we are in a rent to own situation. I am so so glad that God is in control and our money belongs to Him.

In a few weeks we will have finalized our marketing package for our book: BLESSED: The Healing Power of the Beatitudes: Eight Cross-Cultural Steps to Emotional, Relational, Spiritual Wholeness. I will put out a bigger announcement at that time. But it took up part of our summer, as well.

Pray for the new school year, the new teachers, the old teachers, and all the students. Pray for the publishing of our book.