Busy Week

“…But we don’t get to wait to offer our lives until we have our acts together. We don’t get that luxury. If we did would anyone ever feel like offering anything? God asks us to be vulnerable, he invites us to share and give our weaknesses. He wants us to offer the beauty that he has given us even when we are keenly aware that it is not all that we wish it were. He wants us to trust him.” 

–Captivating 

Aiden and his Cousin Gladi

with some cousins

Aiden with a cousin and his aunt of this side of the family.

Your prayers have worked the rains have held off for now! We are having the roof done this week. It will be finished by Saturday, next week the cement and then we are ready to move in! AH so happy. It will be nice to have our own space finally. 

the porch!

Sifeli changed his first diaper ever this week. He can’t handle the baby poop, like at all. In fact Aiden had a really good blow out and got his legs all in it and I thought Sifeli was going to puke. BUT he was able to do a just pee diaper! He also took Aiden for a couple of hours this week while I went to our committee meeting!  You can see him do some baby wearing! 

The new children are adjusting well to life at Sunrise, especially Nickson, the older one. Turns out he is brilliant. He

has only been here one week and in this week he tested higher than our other children in grade 4. (We have 8 kids in one class, 4 are in the top 5.) He is the one who was taking care of the younger siblings. One of the days I was at site this week I was trying to get some medicine for one of the kids. Aiden was on the couch and starting to fuss. There were about 5 people in the kitchen and when I came out Nicky was holding Aiden and trying to comfort him. It was so sweet. The update with their younger brother, whose names is Shedreck, is that he was diagnosed with epilepsy, and is currently on medication. They are trying to find a place for him, so please be praying the perfect place will be found soon. The father is apparently mentally unstable but he had stopped taking his medications, please be praying for him as well.

 

Aiden is getting so big! He is 5 months old today! Kay thinks he is going to be a lawyer because he is a TALKER! He also likes to wake up around 4 or 5 in the morning, we are hoping this is a stage that will end very soon, lol. Also everyone asks if he is one of our orphans! I always ask does he look like he is full african? LOL.

We had two big meetings this week, a trustee meeting on Monday and committee meeting on Wednesday. It’s so exciting to see things moving forward at Sunrise. At our committee meeting we had a little tension.  Its not very Tanzanian culture to accept people from outside your village, so there was some discussion regarding the children from the outside. I gave a little speech in Swahili, well more a sermon, about God loving children and wanting us to take care of them. I wanted to put out the fire before it began and no one can argue with the bible. Lol. 

The Sunrise Crew!