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OK so I got called out by Nate Miller the other day on skype that although he really enjoyed reading my blogs I think he said I was trying to hard to make them sound good. Well I guess I am going to keep trying at least for your (the reader's) benefit. I mean, I know some people who can write really well and you hang on every word that they are saying. I am not one of those people. So thank you again for hang'n in there with these blogs. I have learned a lot this week of the blessing and necessity of community. There is so much that I am learning and so many ways that I am being challenged here but I have realized the importance of being in community with others as a crucial aspect in our spiritual walk. I have been exposed to the blessings of being a part of a community with friends and family whom support each other, challenge each other, and encourage each other to better followers of Jesus Christ. I think community is a necessity and a crucial aspect of our faith. It has been great hanging on to that through this blog. For those who read this and leave comments, use it to support each other as well. Friends keep encouraging, challenging, and most importantly loving each other. (Community)
This week has been good. Along with the on going work here at ECK, Tuesday I was supposed to speak at a school in the afternoon but we could not get to the school because the roads where closed by President Bush. Oh, whom I did not get to meet. I guess I should have tried to get a job at the U.S. Embassy. Any ways back to more important things. I went to one of the local colleges of education and met with a YFC group. I got to meet, spend time with, and talk to some college students about ways that they can be active in their faith there at their school and with their freinds. On Wednesday I spent the afternoon working with another street kids ministry. It is to describe feeling that you have when you meet kids from the age of 8 or 9 to young men in their late teens who sleep in streets, under bridges, and abandoned buildings. who do not have parents, spending the night trying to get drunk or high off of drugs or drinking glue so that they can get sleep at night, spending the days begging and stealing food and money for their drugs. (that might not be a sentence) We are working to get them into school, get them food, and share the love of Christ.
After a great week of work I realized Thursday night as I was going to bed that I had lost my camera somewhere that day. This is was definantly a very disappointing realization and I am not sure what I am going to do. Hopefully some how I can get a hold of another camera for the next 2 1/2 months. Pray that I can get another camera. So for now there will not be anymore pictures to upload on this blog.
Please say a prayer for a container that we need to get with some computers in it to start a computer lab here at the school. It has been delayed a long time and It would be really helpful if I can help to get things set up while I am here. Thank you Thank you again for taking the time to read this blog and for your continual prayers.
PEACE
I moved mountains on Thursday and when I say this I mean I literally moved to a different mountain. It is the next one over from where I was living. I moved from Kibagabaga to Kininya. I now live with a Rwandan family, Rongin works at the school and he has a wife and little baby girl. I am a little more outside of town and It has more of rural setting. The living arrangements are different as well and a little more realistic to how some people are living here. There is no running water. They get their water a quater mile from their house and it must be boiled to drink. The bathroom is a whole in the ground outside,They do not have a kitchen and they cook over a little coal stove. You get clean from taking some water from a bucket and splashing it on your self and this will be life for at least the next 3 weeks. The two biggest frustrations right now are trying to get around town and to work everyday because I have to walk to the main road and try to get a motorcycle taxi and communication is difficult. Communication is tough with my family that I am living with and all I can do at night is read. So I do a lot of it, which has been a challenge because I love spending time wi
th people and I do not love to read. This is just life here and the family that I live with seems to be very content and living comfortably although it only makes me realize the many blessings that I have.
It was a really good weekend.
On Saturday I went and worked with this ministry that spends time with a community of homeless boys. They get together and teach them soccer, try and meet some of their physical needs like food and water, as well as share the love and gospel of Jesus with them. This is a ministry that I will be able to get involved with on a regular basis while I am here. It was a great experience as I watched and learned how they reach out to these boys and how I will be able to help and get involved. Saturday evening I was able to attend part of an African wedding reception with the Brad and Kiki and then I went to Jenny's house. Jenny is an American who teaches at a school here whom I met here through soccer and I was able to meet and hang out with some of her friends who are living and working here in Kigali. Sunday I attended my host family's church and we were there from 8-12...really long service. After we got home from church I decided to take a walk and after 3 hrs of walking I made it to the center of the city and decide it would be best to take a moto taxi back home. It was a fun adventure but I do not think I will be doing that again. So work at the school is going well. My primary work for the next two weeks will be getting some after school programs up and running so that they can begin in early March. God is doing amazing things and using people to reach out to the needs in Rwanda and I pumped just to be a small part of that for the next three months. Continue to pray for the school and its growth, The people and children here in Rwanda and for those in the south who are still recovering from the recent earthquakes.
Our President, G.W. Bush is coming on Tuesday. This is pretty exciting and has been the talk as of lately. He will be here to dedicate the new U.S. Embassy along with visit the Genocide museum... etc. I am trying my best to meet him...I mean he should want to meet every U.S. citizen that is living and working in Rwanda, Right? It will not happen but I can try.
Ephesians 5:15
Be very careful, then, how you live, not as unwise but as wise making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
This is a just a great view of the country side.
I have been working with a street kids ministry and this is me speaking to some of the kids that we work with. It is a great ministry that I really enjoy being a part of look forward to How God is going to use me when spending time with them.
Along with this ministry I have continued to visit YFC clubs in different schools in the area and speak to high school kids.Work at ECK is going well. I have been doing a lot of work to get after school programs started. They will start Tuesday of this week. 
Here is another picture of some of the street kids in our ministry. 
Village Kids
