this week has been...random but great. Papa is no longer sick and back to normal-and he does not hate me! we tried to start the Bible storying on cassettes the other day, but was unable to due to some disturbing circumstances. our first kid to come to the roof to hear the stories was drug down four flights of stairs and beaten. at the time we didnt know if it was because he was going to listen to our Jesus tapes or what. later we found out that it was because he was suppose to be watching the little kids in his compound. very upsetting because he is one of our favorite kids and we had no clue what was going on. so we hope to start the storying tapes at the beginning of next week. pray for us as we get this going!
the English classes are going great on the roof and it looks like they are going to be able to show the Jesus Film to their students in the coming weeks!
for most of the day, i spend time with families in yoff...learning to cook, babysitting, praying over sick kids, etc and eating lots of Senegalese food..too much!i have another cooking lesson this evening! so when i get back we can have a Senegalese fellowship lunch rather than covered dish! yummy!
on a sort of sad note, i have become the disciplinarian of the rather hard to deal with kids. there are only a few of these such kids but they run all over us, disturb the ESL classes and get us in trouble with the landlord, so someone has to do it...and dont you know: its me! not a fun job.
another sad note, yesterday there was a horrible car accident on the road from Dakar to Saint Louis that killed 30 people. many of the people in our area know of people who were in the accident. there is one funeral-like service (more like a party) going on on our street today. pray that God will be moving in these peoples lives through this sad incident.
tomorrow i hope to get to go to a showing of the Passion of the Christ at the Brazilian Baptist Mission on the other side of town.
other prayer requests: my family in the states, many of the team members are experiencing what we call the African stomach which actually hinders them from ministry (i havent been sick), during the day we dont have running water which isnt a problem except for dealing with stomach problems, trying to get lisa a new ticket since hers was misplaced, the whole team is travelling to Saint Louis for a week of ministry there on July 5, all of the Lebou and our ministry!!! and their salvation!