you may remember me writing about a community literacy program we were doing on our mountain last year. well, we're doing the same thing this year, but a little different. this year it is pretty much completely student led with only supervison from adults. there are 4 or 5 of our high school students that are teaching it. anyway, today i had the opportunity to go and see what it was like this year. there were only 2 students from the community there...they were an elderly couple ...probably at least in their 60s, probably 70s. it was really cool to watch how God is using our students, one of them in particular who was teaching today, to reach these people in our community. she was teaching them very basic things such as the alphabet in spanish, and how to write their names, etc. she had to show one of them how to take the lid of his dry erase marker. it's cool to think about how much of an impact this can have in these people's lives and fun to see how appreciative they were of all the help.
please pray for this program and wisdom in making decisions about the long-term plans of it. Also please be praying for the kids club portion of the program that we started last year. our kids are responsible for planning all of it this year and there hasn't been much excitement or follow trhough with the ideas. also...not many kids are coming to the program. please be praying for wisdom in how/if we should proceed with this program as well.
here's another prayer request too :). please be praying for my students who have the chicken pox or "chicken pops" as some of them call it. i went to visit their house the other day and they look and seem pretty miserable. they're pretty much covered all over with the sores and said they have them in their mouth and eyes too. that can't be fun. i took cookies to them that we had made in home ec, and kevin said, "thanks miss hannah, but i don't know if i can eat this. the chicken pox are telling my stomach that i shouldn't eat anything."
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