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SCHOOL TOILET
MONITOR LIZARD
STREET MERCHANT
HIBISCUSS, STATE FLOWER FOR SABAH
WELCOME TO BUM BUM ISLAND
WORKERS' KAMPUNG
As you can see from the pictures some of these people live in very dirty and almost impossible conditions. Our hearts go out to them. We walk over literally garbage and waste to get their homes.
The schools have from 30 to 200 students and in many cases only the building is provided by the plantation owners. The Borneo Child Aid Society provides teachers, school supplies, and everything else and it is all from donations/charity. None of the schools have clean water. Some have no water in the dry season and most have no sanitation. The children use the bush when they need a toilet. We will be putting together a project with the help of clean water specialists, Dave and Lena Frandsen, who are coming in 2 weeks to help us. We are excited to do this project as it will make such a difference to many people.
On last Monday we flew to Singapore to renew our visas. We were able to visit with our mission president and his wife as well as several other missionary couples. It is always nice to go to Singapore---it is so different from here. I remember the my first visa run. When we returned to Malaysia the culture shock hit me really hard.
We just returned home for about 10 days, just enough to get tickets and reservations and plan out the next 2 week trip back to Humana Schools. We are a little travelled out but only a year left of it. Oh well time passes quite quickly and we are so enjoying seeing the happy faces becasuse of this work.
At the handover ceremonies this last weekend for more wheel chairs we met a 9 year old with Polio who had been carried her whole life until she got her first wheels from LDSC. We also met an engineer who had an accident several years ago and has only been able to crawl around the house for about 9 years until he got a wheel chair. The list goes on and on. They are so thankful to have mobility again.
We have had some churches attend our handovers and aske dif they could have more. I aske dif we might partner with them to work on such things and they said they don't have such a program and relyu on our efforts with LDSC to provide. We are so thankful to be able to do so. We know the Lord has inspired our leaders to put this program in place that we can help our brothers and sisters all over the world.
We have learned that LDSC has provided 1000 homes, 2 churches for other faiths and two mosques and a hospital and a couple of schools for the people of Indonessia that suffered from the devastation of the Tsunami a few years ago. I would like to serve on that iniative to help with the emergencies when we are are through here. However that is a long ways off.
Interesting to note that many of the other Senior Couples are in their 70's. We seen to be the youngest so far. We have hear that there will be far less coming out this next year because of the financial strggles of the world. That is so sad because there is such a need out here. Those of you that can please strongly consider, It is hard to imagine how these peole will get along without our help. At the same time it is hard to imagine us getting along without this expereince. I am not sure there is anything other expereince or thing that can possibly come close to replicating this part of our lives. I could not imagine living our lives without this experience.
A very wise man who had just returned from serving told us when he was asked about what he thought of us going said, " Don't go until the time is right but go as soon as you can. The lord told us the time was right and in our case he got us out as soon as He possibly could. We are so thankful for all your supoort and prayers.
We just returned home for about 10 days, just enough to get tickets and reservations and plan out the next 2 week trip back to Humana Schools. We are a little travelled out but only a year left of it. Oh well time passes quite quickly and we are so enjoying seeing the happy faces becasuse of this work.
At the handover ceremonies this last weekend for more wheel chairs we met a 9 year old with Polio who had been carried her whole life until she got her first wheels from LDSC. We also met an engineer who had an accident several years ago and has only been able to crawl around the house for about 9 years until he got a wheel chair. The list goes on and on. They are so thankful to have mobility again.
We have had some churches attend our handovers and aske dif they could have more. I aske dif we might partner with them to work on such things and they said they don't have such a program and relyu on our efforts with LDSC to provide. We are so thankful to be able to do so. We know the Lord has inspired our leaders to put this program in place that we can help our brothers and sisters all over the world.
We have learned that LDSC has provided 1000 homes, 2 churches for other faiths and two mosques and a hospital and a couple of schools for the people of Indonessia that suffered from the devastation of the Tsunami a few years ago. I would like to serve on that iniative to help with the emergencies when we are are through here. However that is a long ways off.
Interesting to note that many of the other Senior Couples are in their 70's. We seen to be the youngest so far. We have hear that there will be far less coming out this next year because of the financial strggles of the world. That is so sad because there is such a need out here. Those of you that can please strongly consider, It is hard to imagine how these peole will get along without our help. At the same time it is hard to imagine us getting along without this expereince. I am not sure there is anything other expereince or thing that can possibly come close to replicating this part of our lives. I could not imagine living our lives without this experience.
A very wise man who had just returned from serving told us when he was asked about what he thought of us going said, " Don't go until the time is right but go as soon as you can. The lord told us the time was right and in our case he got us out as soon as He possibly could. We are so thankful for all your supoort and prayers.
