Moving On

We are delighted to tell you that Amalia no longer works for us! And why are we delighted? Because it means her hairdressing business is becoming established and she is now doing it full-time. Please pray that she would continue to get enough customers to make it a viable business (viz. that she will earn enough to support herself.)
One can learn words in a language and still not be able to speak it. I was going over something I had written in Oshindonga for the Sunday school book with an Oshiwambo speaker. I had said that Genesis means ‘beginnings’ and the book told us of the beginning of the world and the beginning of God’s people etc. I had used the same Oshindonga word for ‘beginning’ (etameko) of the world as of God’s people. He said, no, I can’t. The word etameko means the beginning of someTHING, whereas euyepo means the beginning of someone.
The photos show David playing soccer and doing a Bible overview with his ‘boys’. The bird is a bee eater, taken from far away in the late arvo, hence poor quality. But a very pretty bird.
The lending library is a great success. I have 17 children now, with their own little ‘library cards’ upon which I mark books borrowed and returned. As a confirmed bibliophile, it is hard to send my books into the ‘unknown’ and risk them being eaten by goats but, as a confirmed bibliophiIe, I love watching them walking home, engrossed in their new books as they walk.
The children are allowed to come 3 days a week at 3pm. Any earlier and it makes it hard for us to finish school work and for my children to have a quiet time to read or play together. I saw some of the boys sitting outside our house at 1.30 a.m. today as they had nothing else to do, just chatting, reading their books and wating for 3 o’clock to arrive! The boys spent about 2 hours playing bionicles with Étienne today. They have all built their own from the box of bits and have a grand time. Caris and her little friends played dolls.