Good day! It is a beautiful day here today! Hot as usual, but I'm sitting in a air conditioned coffee shop enjoying the sunshine away from the humidity! Spoiled? hmm....:)
As I mentioned in the previous post, last week was the first week of school. They gave us our assignment Monday which is due for the 26th. The assignment consists of a whole list of questions that need to be researched in our textbooks. We have eight textbooks the info can be found in, so our goal is to gather all the information and compile it into answers. Some answers are 1/2 pg in length, others are 10 pgs! So far It's going good- slowly but surely! It takes a bit to get to "know" your textbooks! It's excited that everything we study involves what we will be practising!
Yesterday I went to Bible Fellowship Davao for the third time. I had heard of it though Bill Coffee who knows of American missionaries (Seven & Dottie St. Claire) who are there. The first Sunday I went proved to be quite the adventure. I took a motorbike ride to get there (one of the means of transportation here). Glad to be alive :), I arrived at the little church consisting of around 50 people, most of them being very poor (many are even homeless). The missionary couple gave me a warm welcome as did the people. One older lady who had only one eye and a few teeth came up to me and grabbed my arm not wanting to let go. At first my instinctive was to try to free myself from this lady whose hygiene level was obviously not very high. But then it struck me- I had completely missed out on sharing the love and compassion of Jesus that we are called to live out. It was a humbling experience, not because of the physical happenings that had occurred, but because of how I had responded to it inside. Who was I to think I was above her, for before the cross we all stand equal. Lesson learned? I'm finding I have much to learn!
This is getting longer than anticipated, so I'll close off and save the rest for another day. My assignment is getting nowhere while it remains minimized on my computer screen! :)
God bless!
-Sarah
Eph 5:1-2
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Hi Sarah - loved the pictures! You are in our prayers every day! How is the assignment going? Dana is at a meet the teacher night tonight. Wonder what kind of stories we will hear. She is busy every night at the school. So much for people who think teachers have an easy life! Take care. We miss you too! love Frank and Harriett
Hey Harriett...Thanks for the post! :) I'm not sure if you'll see this one I'm writing now...anyways. I'll write you another e-mail.
Miss you!
Sarah
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