dedication

The second block of classrooms is almost completely finished (I think it needs the doors installed to be done done)! Last week we had the dedication ceremony as one of the key figures from Korea was in town. Mr. Kim had come to South Africa to watch Korea play in the World Cup and since he was this close he flew up to Malawi to come to see the school. He is from the Moonwha Mission School in Korea that was started by missionaries in the 60s and now they are doing very well and Mariella Provost (the wife of the missionary who started that school) went to them and said as you have been helped it is time to help others and challenged them to raise the money for the school building. And they did. So we had the dedication while Mr. Kim was here. He arrived Sunday afternoon and Monday morning he came to the school to give gifts to all the children—crayons in a plastic box, tshirts, pencil cases with stencils, ruler, eraser, and sharpener, hankerchiefs, compact mirrors…it was like Christmas! Then at 11:30 we had invited the school team, work team, parents to the ceremony. There were speeches by the chairman of the school team, Mr. Kim, Abusa (Reverend) Chapota and then the children said the prayer that they say every morning—
“Every morning seems to say
There’s something happy on the way
And God sends love to you
Thank you God for this new day
Thank you God for work and play
Thank you God for nighttime too
Thank you God for what you do. Amen”
And then they sand the national anthem. Mr. Kim presented the plaque that will be installed on the building for the Raymond Provost Memorial Hall and Dorothy presented him with a banner that said thank you to the school with all of our kids hand prints on it. then there was a luncheon at our house for about 20 people that seemed to go very well.