Brightening up around hospital.......

We have been doing various practical jobs around hospital lots of painting in the

semi -private rooms, I hope you like the lilac shade! Mwandaji and his helper Kayombo have made a good job of the rooms.
We have also been doing some repair jobs

and reroofing of some of the small houses on the hospital camp.

Prize giving.

We had a good time on Sunday morning when the ladies Bible School took over at church and we had singing, recitations and presentations of the certificats for the Sept 2009 to July 2010 sessions. The top three canditates also recieved telephones as well as their certificates so they were very happy. The No 3 spot went to one of my midwives who unfortunately is on holiday at present and so couldn't be with us, however, her husband had telephoned her to tell her and so she rang me in the evening to say thank you!!

I also heard from one of the elders who had been encouraged by finding out something about the Bible School programme and teaching so that was good.

Parcels

We had an SOS from Sakeji school in Zambia asking us to arrange urgently to collect our mail which was filling and over flowing their radio room.

I was able to arrange with our ex chauffeur to do a special trip in the land cruiser. They left 6am one day and returned 2 days later at about 6pm with a car loaded with parcels and swahili bibles and French new testaments so it was a very worthwhile trip for us and we are grateful to all the friends who have continued to send to us even though we no longer have a container service for DRCongo these days.

INAUGURATION DAY

Saturday 16th October was a special day for us here at Katoka because finally the 2ndry school administration and IT building, from our point of view was finished and opening day had arrived. There is still much to be done as far as fitting out the various rooms but we had a lovely time and we were able to Praise God for His goodness to us through His many children who have supported this project since the very beginning. Here you see the school Prefet (in the red shirt ) and the representative of the chief cutting the ribbon and declaring the building open. We then enjoyed a feast very nicely set out in the large assembly room.