Class photos

We have taken class photos of all the grades at LAMB School. They are available at the end of a click on the photo on the right.

The things we do to our children...

The tests are on and the clock is ticking. Please pray that the children
will learn to take tests, do well and know that they are loved all the same.

An early end

It is the last day before exam week and it seems like we are ready for it. In this photo some of us are at the local 'doughnut' shop. We finish early this year - there is a government 'request' to do so, but for us it is the realities of children not being likely to return after Eid on 9 December; and the need to finish classes before the elections that are scheduled for 18 December.

Every winter someone will set up shop outside the gate to serve these local cakes called pithas. There are two varieties here; steam cooked rice with molasses melts and dry fried plain. There is also a choice of toppings; molasses and spices. Later there will be another variety, deep fried with coconut. The steam fried one is 'healthy' because it doesn't have oil and the deep fried because it doesn't have sugar. I will probably try to get one of each for a balanced diet.

One benefit of a long Christmas holidays is that there will be more time for the painters to work through both school buildings. They are due to start this Saturday morning and we hope they will be able to finish before we start back up again in January. The challenges will be to juggle Eid holidays for the painters, Christmas holidays for the teachers and elections for all. Many will have to travel to their ancestral village for their vote to count.

Nativity Lutheran Church

We have just had a group of eight visitors of whom about half were from Nativity Lutheran Church in Minnapolis. It is always encouraging linking up with people all over the world and to know that people are praying for us.
In the photo grades five and six are handing over a thank you poster from all the teachers and students at the school to the visitors.

Pollination

Alan Kaiser was preparing to teach about pollination when he found this moth in a flower.
It was so busy with its probing that it let him bring it to my office where I spent a good half hour watching it probing all over the flower to suck up all the nectar that its long proboscis could find.
You could see the pollen on its head and wonder at the beauty of how God has planned for flowers to spring from the need of a moth to eat.

Cultural Show

The afternoon - and the celebration ended with a cultural show in which all areas of the project, and then some, entertained with deep and not-so-deep creative reflections on what LAMB is and does. It was great fund, embarrassing, long-winded, hilarious but never boring - just the way it usually is.
(Credit goes to Rusho, G5, for this photo.)

Speeches

Many of the people in this picture gave speeches to honour God and the
people of LAMB.

Anniversary rally after morning prayers

Every good celebration starts with prayer and then a rally...

Anniversary Celebrations Begin

LAMB Hospital is celebrating its 25th Anniversary tomorrow. Preparations are under way. All possible combinations of people at LAMB are getting ready for the day. These photos were taken at about 6:30 pm today, Thursday; Food is being cooked; outside the gate there are more people than usual and groups arrive all the time; what you can't see is the music from all the groups of people who are practising songs, dances and dramas for tomorrow.