Marching on!

March is here and my bi-weekly blog seems to be doing well to be monthly. But never-the -less it is time for an update and so here we go. February was a very busy month with school going full speed ahead and the additional activities of having our "home office" folks here to see how we are doing and what we need. Our president met with "the" president of Liberia and a number
of church officials. We were encouraged to find out that they plan to send another family here to help us the end of the month MARCH! Hurrah! And they are working to get my house mate, Erica here soon also. This is great news!!
Even though we are still working in the school short handed, we will begin to add day students from outside the village to our classrooms this week. These are children of our employees. They are excited to be able to be a part of a Rafiki classroom. School outside the village is very limited and expensive. These children range in age from 5 to 8, but will all be starting at pre-k or kindergarten level. We hope to be able to boost some of the older ones up after some time in our school. Please pray for us as we make this transition. It will actually add 15 new faces to our classrooms boosting our school size from 22 to37. Big change! Also please pray for the hearts of these children and we share the wonders of God's amazing creation with them and they learn about Him.
We now have all of our children in school except the two babies, Nehemiah and Timothy, who are growing and changing just like typical 2 year olds.
Our next step in growth is to add more children. Please pray that God will send the ones He has chosen to be here. Also pray that He go before us in providing good mothers to add to our team.
More children means more mothers and they must be trained and prepared for the challenge of raising these little ones.
As I look at my life here in Liberia, I often find myself waking up in prayer, not knowing how to meet the challenges of the day. But the amazing thing is I don't have to meet them alone.
For God is faithful, it is His work and in His hands I move and breath and live. And so I lay it on the altar each morning, knowing that I am NOT enough and that doesn't matter because He IS.
God bless you for your prayers and your service to Him.
Julie