This Friday we celebrated the wedding of our newest female teacher, Gloria Mardi to Mr Sunil Sylvester Murmu.
The wedding was at Dhandjuri Church and the feast at Gloria’s home afterwards. There was music, traditional dancing, gifts and food.
The guests were invited to bless the couple by anointing their arms and faces with oil.
In the Santal culture the children will get the fathers last name, but the wife retains her family name even after marriage.
The construction of a structure to carry the roof on the second level has just begun. It is exciting to see how things are progressing. We are about three weeks behind schedule because some materials didn’t arrive on time. The contractor expects to be able to pour the roof before Eid-Ul-Fitr on 14 October.
We have been blessed by having Josh Buning at LAMB school for the past year. I think all the children feel they were Josh’ special friend. One of them asked me just after we had seen Josh off at the station, ‘Do you think we will get another teacher like Josh?’ That is quite a testimony to how he managed to touch the hearts of the children.
We pray that God will go with Josh as he returns to his family in the US and that we might see him one day again.
