Construction at Karanse!

The biggest thing last week was arriving at Karanse school to see that ground had been broken for the new computer room/lab! Then watching all week as the fundis (workmen) laid the foundation with truckload after truckload of huge rocks, then sand for cement. Plus, the week we were there before, they had been laying additional water lines, so there is a sink in the dining hall, another one by the teacher toilets, and several new outside taps for washing dishes, watering plants, etc.

On Thursday morning, I was standing on the porch of the school, listening to the children in their devotions singing, "We serve a miracle-working God," and from where I was standing I could see the whole "campus," including the construction site of the computer room. I couldn't help but remember the pictures of how this place looked at the beginning and think, "Yes, we do!" Miracles were evident all around me: classrooms for grades Pre-1-7, a dining hall, toilets and water tower from the well, playground equipment, and now a computer lab - here in Karanse.

Reminded me of showing the teachers there the picture of Isack and Pastor reading World magazine that got published in the magazine itself some months back. Moses, one of the teachers there and a truly Godly man, said, "Miriam, think about this. No one in Tanzania even knows where we are, much less the US or the world. But, God knows we are here, and He has brought your people from America here to work with us, and look at what He has done." I loved that idea because, truly, when I tell people here where I work, I have to tell them what it's close to as they've never heard of Karanse. But, even so, miraculous things are happening!

The other wonderful miracle was that the rains have started! Everyone had plowed their fields and planted their maize, and then they just wait for the rains. I've just been prayng for rain, as have many people back home, though I selfishly admit that I pray for the rain to fall on the fields not the road I drive on to get to Karanse! Lots of rain on Friday, so I hope that's just the beginning of the long rainy season. Hopefully, that wll also help the power situation, as that's what they've blamed our lack of power on for the past few months!