A Work Weekend

We did "on call duty" yesterday which involves being on the premises from 6:30am until 10:00pm. That pretty well includes the whole day. There are some work duties which must be done, but it is more of an inconvenience in not being able to plan something with the other volunteers. On the plus side, it is a great opport unity to catch up on college football, which I did. The volunteers organized a "Crazy Whist" card game in which we did get to participate. So it wasn't a bad day overall.

Today we went to church "upcountry", a small church about 3,000 ft up the mountain. Tonight the volunteers had a poolside barbecue (see picture) since the caterer is off because there is a one week break between classes.

Thursday night was convocation and the fellow in the picture with Marlene and me is Bernard, a Pastor from Narobi, Kenya who was a Resident Coordinator for the last class. He is also the Kenya Director of Africa Leadership & Reconciliation Ministries. He was here last year when we first met him, as a participant.

One of the other pictures is Dr Aldo Fontao, his wife and a participant. He is Vice President, Training & Development. Aldo is from Argentina, a cardiologist, a Pastor, Moderator of Presbyterian Church in Argentina, and has been here for the past six years. He is the fellow in the "yellow jeep" DVD that we have shown some of you.

This week we will do projects that can't be completed while there are participants here. Next Sunday we start welcoming the first 60 of a 120 female particpant double class. That will keep the place hopping for five weeks.