Four Weeks and Counting...

Well we haven't fallen off the face of the earth we've just been a little quiet lately on the blog. This post should bring you all up to speed on the major happenings in August.

Two days after we flew in Ryan and Cassandra Vandenhaak joined us. Ryan is studying youth ministry and part of his program was to do a three week internship so they joined us here at the ACC and Randy put Ryan to work teaching Bible, leading Bible study, organizing a community soccer tournament, setting up a house in a third world country, the experience of driving in Haiti, teaching with a translator, I think the list could go on and on. Cassandra was a blessing to have along as well as she helped out a lot with administrative stuff since our co-worker Kim was out of country. She was also a Super Huge help with Maia, babysitting her and entertaining her so that I could get our "new"house organized...

Ryan teaching Bible in Grade 3

Maia hanging out with CassandraThe Winners of the secondary students World Cup Tournament

yes we moved! It's probably only a km down the road but it is a much nicer place to be. It is way less dusty, on a quiet road and it has a bit of vegetation - banana trees, palm trees, lime trees - it's beautiful and we are so thankful for God opening up doors for us to rent it so fast and move in so quickly. Ryan and Cassandra were able to help us out with the move, which was another big blessing, epecially since Ryan's got the muscle power and Cassandra has the gift of organizing kitchen cupboards among many other talents.

And along with the house came two more dogs. They are two more big dogs to add to the two we already had. The main reason for them is security, we have a tent city right outside our back wall and our two big black dogs look scary but they aren't much for security as I think they are a little deaf. The two new dogs however are good guard dogs... I was even afraid to come into my own yard! Thankfully though they let Maia boss them around and use and abuse them.

And to end off the month of August school let out for the year. It has definately been a year of ups and downs but through it all we can confidently say the Lord is good! We have been so blessed this year by teachers, staff members, students, parents, co-workers. We've dealt with many big losses this year - loss of life, loss of building - but we have also gained so much - new staff members, stronger sense of community - GOD is good, all the time! Before school let out we had a fun day with the kids, the older kids had a world cup tournament and the younger kids participated in a little talent show. It was amazing hearing their giggles and their screams of delight and their voices belting out praises.