Saturday School

Due to a generous donation from a young American pen-pal, Shalika and Madushani were able to purchase teaching supplies for their Saturday School. The kids ask if they could hold the school in this covered area that was not being used at the moment. They worked all day cleaning it up, and on Saturday morning held their first English class for the younger kids in their new one room school house! The young children are eager to learn and we are extremely fortunate to have two young girls so willing to teach. They told Donna this trip that they hope to be teachers, just like her, when they grow up! Thank all of you for your prayers this trip. This has been our best trip and we are sad that we are leaving so soon. It seems we just arrived!

Future Texas Rangers?

We have had a good week and are now preparing to come home! On our final day in the village the young boys wanted me to throw the ball with them and teach them some of the finer points of our "American pastime"! The bats and balls were donated by a former New York Yankee major league pitcher and maybe one of these young boys will someday follow his footsteps, if we can get the recruiters to come this far around the globe. I guess with internet anything is possible these days! My old pitching arm is suffering today, but it was a great time seeing them eagerly trying to catch everything I could throw or hit to them! Even the girls got into the game after several of the boys took a break. We will need to find a few more gloves to go around, and I was even surprised to see a few fellow "lefties" in the group!