I hiked up a steep red dirt hill, cut off from the main road. This is the same half-mile hill that over 600 elementary students trek each day as they walk over 2 miles to get to school. There are only 6 teachers for all 600 students. Each teacher instructs a class of 50 students in one classroom from 7 am until noon. When those students are released at midday the next group of 300 students arrives,...
Please Send Books Who would have ever thought that I would teach a construction class?!?!!? Yet here I was in Rural Rwanda telling a class full of eager young men what building materials in America are like. They wanted to know how building was different in America. Mind you they have not a single book for 300 students, nor a computer nor TV, so their ideas about the Western world are very limited. No, actually we didn’t build out...
Dear Friends, I would like to take this opportunity to share with you the mission work I am setting out to do in Rwanda, Africa. As many of you know, I have established a non-profit organization: Love Alive International Inc., and will be leaving for Africa January 16, 2013. I am thrilled with the opportunity that lies before me. Since my two trips and more than 2 months in Africa in 2011, I have been praying about and preparing to return on...
