The Philippines on Thursday

Thursday, March 22, 2012

We started the day off with a wonderful breakfast then walked to the college.  Pastor Roberto led us in a devotional about planning and goals.  We read from Proverbs and Luke.  Today Susan and I sorted library books. We cleaned off all the shelves containing the theological books and returned those with spine labels back to the shelves in Dewey Decimal order.  Then we toured the Primary classroom which consists of Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten.  The summer has started here so the students are no longer in school.  Deaconess Ana Lee does the best she can with very limited resources.  She is full of the joy of the Lord and is a delightful person to be with.  We talked with Deaconess Emylin for a while in her music room.  She is working towards her Master’s degree in music.  Susan worked with Jason in the Cantina again today.  He said he looked forward to using the interesting cooking material she presented to him.  Kathie continued to catalog books as well as tutor one of the second year college  students in English.  We, the library ladies, decided to visit the construction workers, Dave, Bob, Marsha and Melissa at the work site.  Very shortly we were put to work hauling big bricks to the site.  It was better than a gym work out, we all concluded.  The walls are going up and the roof is on.  They have accomplished quite a lot so far.  What is amazing is watching the Filipinos at work using these materials.  Without the kind of level we use in the states, they are able to keep the bricks straight as they add them using a string stretched from wall to wall.  God bless all of you!  Marian