But Jesus loves me, doesn't he

As I was walking away from the school during the lunch break, Rick* ran up to me and shouted, "Uncle, Uncle, do you know what Sara* did?" There usually follows a story about some misdeed committed by a fellow classmate and today was no different. "She scared me."
Rick is a lively boy in Kindergarten so I picked him up and said, "But if you have been a good boy, it doesn't matter so much what others do."
"But it hurt me in my heart." he replied taking his hand to his chest.
I went on talking about him being a good boy when he interrupted saying, "But Jesus loves me, doesn't he?"
"Yes."
"Yeah!" was his only reply as he danced back towards his friends and the swing.
There is nothing like children to cheer you up and remind you of the most important thing in life. God must have sent Rick to me today.

*The children are real, the dialogue is my translation from Bangla but I changed the names.

Pray a little longer

Thank you to all of those who prayed for the fund release for LAMB. We don't have the paper yet, but the promise we got was that it would be signed early next week.
Please continue to pray that we will get the fund release for both LAMB Hospital and for the school.

FD-2

After the auditors have scrutinised our budgets and found that we have accounted accurately for the money we have been given, and that we spent our funds during the last fiscal year (July - June) in accordance to the mandate given us by the government we apply for permission to bring in funds for the new year, a so called FD-2.
For some reason or other this process has been delayed this year and we have run out of funds in country.
Tomorrow, Thursday, our ED is hoping to speak to the authorities in Dhaka so that we can access the funds already given to LAMB.
Please pray for fund release - we need two; one for the school, and one for the rest of LAMB Project so that we can continue to pay salaries and provide the services to the people we have been sent here to serve.
Please also pray that we will see God's hand in this, and learn from it not to make the same mistakes again, and more about God's faithfulness in providing for our needs.

Microscope

It is a while since we were given this microscope by friends from Minneapolis in the US. Thanks to people at Nativity Lutheran Church we can now say we have done scientific research on pollen.
You won't be able to see what the students in grade 5 and 6 saw, but the photos show you some of their reactions to it.

Picnics

Thank you for your prayers. All the beautiful children

are back from Rangpur Zoo after seeing wild and dangerous animals

safely caged

and well fed

You can see more photos and, if you read Danish, read about what grades 2, 3 and 4 did on their picnic here.

Study Tours & Visitors

Tomorrow is the day when all the students and teachers at LAMB School head out into the big world on our annual picnic. Apart from two teachers who would be throwing up all over the children if they came on the buses, we will all pile into vehicles that will take us to new and interesting sites.

It's not like browsing the web, the world we see will be real enough and the traffic will be full of big trucks and buses; cars and rickshaws and cycles; pedestrians and cows and goats; children and motorcycles weaving in and out of the mesh.

I'll admit to being a little apprehensive of the whole thing but it helps knowing that God has protected us every year so far. Do pray with me, please.

We have four different trips for three grades each heading south. Grades five and six, however, are spending three days with two school classes from Grace International School in Dhaka and will join them on a trip north to
Kantaji Mondir - a famous Hindu temple and a castle ruin near Dinajpur.

I'll put pictures on the blog soon after we get back.
Rusho has taken pictures of the things they saw on a walk with the children from Dhaka, the ones you see in this post are his;
Papaya fruit,
irrigation pump,
calf,
painted mud floor and wall,
fire place,
girl grinding henna.