Hard to believe that it is October already. Another week of school has finished, we have cataloged a lot of books this week – found some excellent books in some of the boxes. Some of the materials are for throw away as they don’t relate to people in Africa. People have this idea that if it is no longer useful to them it should be useful in a Third World country. I can never figure out how it can be good enough for Third World people if it isn’t good enough for our own personal use. Maybe I shouldn’t get on this “soap box”. I will go so far as to give people credit for not having thought this though at all. Third World countries don’t deserve our junk; our standard of what is useful for us should be the standard we use with people around the world. If it isn’t good enough for us, it is not good enough for Third World countries. They deserve every advantage that we have. Some where along the line we all got our priorities messed up.


We have had house guests most nights this week. A group from Partners WorldWide joined us for a few nights. They were helping out with seminars on church growth through small group Bible studies, visiting some of our primary schools and looking at developing a clean water project for RITT (Reformed Institute for Theological Training). Tonight the Africa director for World Missions arrives with his wife and they will stay for 4 nights looking at possible ways that World Missions can help RITT out.

The Internet is very frustrating here - slow at the Internet Caffe (as they call it here) and non-existent at RITT. It is almost impossible to set up a first class library without use of the Internet but we are trying. We use the Internet Caffe for cataloging some of the books that at not on our disc or that do not have a CIP. Ray printed up about 15 records the other day, or so he thought, but when he went to the printer to pick them up, the printer was not working properly and nothing printed. It took me over ½ hour just to get to my emails via the Internet. FINALLY, it came up and worked for a while

Next week Friday we will be driving about 100km each way to a students compound. We support this student and have been invited to see his home, wife, two children and parents. We will leave in the morning, spend a few hours at his compound and then drive back home in the afternoon before it gets dark.