Update

It occured to me that none of the Rock Island staff have blogged in a very long time. Ron is on family vacation right now in Florida and Luke..well we all know he doesn't blog much. I leave for Africa a week from tomorrow. The day after I get back from Africa I close on my new house (July 31), so that is my excuse. I've been making an attempt at being organized for those two big events.

Here are a few updates:

- Last week some of the youth kids informed me that we need to take more field trips. With camps and stuff like that we only scheduled one to White Water in August. I told them to make me a list of stuff they wanted to do. Some items listed in the list of about 50 things were build a pool in the back of Rock Island and go to the lake. Ha. I then had to explain to them why it would be unwise to take 20 kids who can't swim to the lake and how if we put a pool behind Rock Island there wouldnt' be a basketball court. They quickly erased those things. They had some good ideas like camping, fishing, putt putt and Redhawks game. We are going to make an attempt to fulfill some of those wishes in the few weeks of summer left.

- We are starting a new girls bible study this week at Rock Island. I'm leading an in-depth study of what it means to be a Proverbs 31 woman. I've been reading Proverbs 31 every night for about a month as a refresher. It's good for me...helps me to know areas I personally need to work on.

- This coming Wednesday we are going to do lice treatments on all the elementary kids. There is an outbreak and I'm pretty sure at least 20-30 of them have major infestation. I'm surprised I haven't gotten them in my 5 years working at the mission.

- We started language tutoring this month. It's just the beginning of this program. We are using the Let's Start Talking format which uses the book of Luke as a textbook. We are starting with only 3 students and 3 tutors. I'm sure it will grow alot in the months to come. Pray for Olga, Socorro and Ana as they attempt to learn English for the first time.

Blessings to everyone!