Update #4 (September 10, 2011)

Today's accomplishments -- The guys finished the kitchen and installed locksets on the nine doors. Dave and Johnny Carmichael routered all the baseboard. (Thank you, Lee, for the router!) And, they wish some of you were here to paint it :) About an hour or so after breakfast on Monday, they'll have finished the closet for the house parents.

This afternoon Phil, Don, Dave, Johnny, and couple of the older boys from The Pines re-purposed a pipe half buried and abandoned in the gold mine dump-- well suited to carry rain water away from the back of the main building. As you can see in the photo, this project brought out the little boy in all of them!

For sure, they all earned their showers today...

Sally and I did a little shopping at the twice monthly Welkom flea market. I can pass on the dried eland, but fell for the beef biltong. Too bad. We'll have to eat it here, as the USDA won't let us carry it home.

Mama Margaret has a choir of six girls working on songs for tomorrow's church service. I enjoy their exuberance and expect her persistence will convince them to follow her direction. What a good thing, to learn such an important lesson about serving in the church.

Tomorrow, while you sleep we'll be driving to Thabong and the African church service. The building and the neighborhood and the prayer and the preaching and the congregation will be quite different than we normally experience in West Michigan. But, the worship!!! it will be true. I pray that yours will be as well.

Judy

PS: Congratulations, Dave and Ronda, on your 35th wedding anniversary! What's a distance of 8000 or so miles when you've had 35 good years, right?