Renovations & Start of School

Soon after camp was the starting of school. We had to make several renovations on the premises but never had the time (Our daycare doesn't go on breaks except National Holidays) or we never had adequate funds to do it. But…. God, being soooo Good, He provided us with the funds and we used a short break before the start of the new school year to get the work done. We were able to get much accomplished within a relatively short time with the help of many from the church.  Some of the work included painting the entire building, re-concreting the compound, changing the school kitchen from being a storage room to be a real working kitchen to provide meals for kids, etc. Aside from the majority of the concrete work, we decided to do it ourselves. Because the building is multi-used by the gym, daycare, Christian school, and church, we had a pool of people coming together to help which was a blessing! 
The masons, members of our gym, resurfacing the gym floor
Because we keep getting more students, we had to build a new storage room and turn the old one into a kitchen.

Putting up an old basketball rim for the kids
The painting begins
We were blessed to have George Owusu- a graduate of the Christian school who now serves in Cameroon with my in-laws, come and intern with us! He was a great help and encouragement!
Blessed to have tall ones among us :)
An army marches on their stomach and so did these volunteers!  Mrs. KK, our new school cook, got to practice cooking for a large group in our new kitchen.
Getting the kids involved young
All the ladies got into it too!
HAHA :)
Bravery!
Kids were working hard too!
Finished work!
After three weeks of hard labor, the building was ready for school, church,  & gym ministries to begin. School began with a number of new admissions now bringing our total number of students to be about 80.
 Happy Students
My students- those working on PACES






Comments

Post a Comment

Donate

Followers

Popular posts from this blog

A Time to Build Up, Laugh, and Dance

Image
     These past couple of months have been full of many group/Church team-building activities. We were blessed to have friends and family from around the world visiting us through the Christmas time. We were especially thankful for our newly rented home that we could host four families (21 guests) in. It was very busy but everything was merrier being able to do everything together. The men took a trip up north for the annual Bolgatanga Men's Meeting. As usual we camped out in the open up on the rocky hills and had a super time of teaching, preaching, singing, etc.   Afterwards we had our Annual Staff Christmas Party back in Kumasi. God has been faithful to us year after year so we get together as staff and have a little fun and games and food :) , and then individually give testimonies of significant things God has done for us and in us. It was a great time! This was followed by our annual school kids Christmas Presentation. This time each teacher was responsible for  coming
Read more

A Do-It-Yourself Move

Image
Y ou know how moving to a different house can flip your world upside down for a while? Yep!  It's been pretty crazy around here, but we are sooooooo thankful and excited!  We finally got all moved into our new home right next to the school!  Believe it or not, the landlords still haven't finished the plumbing (our water tank still leaks), the electrical work (some parts of the house still need sockets and wiring), or the painting (they did finish inside but the entire outside hasn't been touched) but we had to go ahead and make the move anyway because the summer school break was fast approaching the end!  So far, we are extremely happy with the QUIETER street; more room for the kids and guests; wonderful cool breezes we get here; and being able to pop right over to the school/assembly building to help serve more!  We are beyond grateful and appreciative to all who helped make this move possible! Yup, the workers were tiling the kitchen by the light of their cellphone
Read more

Field Day Fun!

Image
The year of school has drawn to an end with a flurry of final tests, report cards, farewells, and a fabulous, fun final day out in the botanical gardens on the nearby university campus.  What fun it was to be together out in an open grassy field to bring closure to the year of hard work, training, education, and diligent child care.  We especially thank God for the cloud cover which gave shady, cooler weather but didn't rain on us. Get ready! Get set!......... ....And GO!!!! We had games, races, balloons and bubbles   So much enjoyable fellowship filled with laughter among friends, siblings, staff and students.                                                           Yummy picnic snacks       Hurray for the Helpful, hard-working staff and several volunteers who came out to help! Our favorite aspect of this day was seeing what makes our school extra-special.  Everyone i
Read more