October 18, 2010

First day of Lekol!

Proverbs 22:6 "Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it."

1 Timothy 4:7,10 "Rather train yourself for godliness. For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God..."


Well, today we had our first day of school! Praise the LORD! We were excited to open our doors again and welcome the students back as we begin our new school year. Most of the students showed up, packing the classrooms. The first day of school is always hard though because there are so many parents who still show up with their children trying to get them into the school - but we do not have enough room, and can't take them all. It is heart breaking to turn people away.



On the first day of school the children receive all their books and cahiers, they get introduced or re-introduced to the school’s rules, meet their teachers and get settled into their class-rooms. You can see on some photos the stack of new books that the students receive this year. Because of the earthquake most students’ books were destroyed or lost, and so this year we had to purchase new ones for them all. Thank-you to everyone who has supported Adoration through child sponsorship or disaster relief. The books are included in the sponsorship.









We are also blessed in that through your support we can offer 2 meals a day to these students. They receive breakfast and lunch. It was good to have the cooks back, working hard to provide these meals.The students will be given uniforms as well, when they are finished being made. We provide 2 shirts for them, and they are responsible for their pants or skirt.


Maia enjoys the school, and enjoys playing with the students and sitting with them. She also enjoys organizing the school office, as Kim always needs a hand tidying up.








Many things still need to be done to the Centre to make it fully functional. We do not have any electricity yet, and we are still working on building classroom dividers, enough tables and benches, getting the pastors office, the church, and the medical clinic up and running. Please pray that in the next little while we would be able to get all these things operational.

God is good... all the time!

1 comment:

Petra Janine said...

Excited to see the school up and running again! May God continued to be glorified through the work done in Haiti. He is good - all the time!