Teachers, Tiredness and A New Term
Glistening in the sun, and interrupted by the occasional tuft of grass or tree, the road to Marol now closer resembles a river than the dry track of the dry season. Yet, with shoe-less feet, the children will wade through the water tomorrow morning to return to Marol. They have just had a week’s holiday and will return to a new term at Marol Academy. It is now only a month and a half until the school year comes to an end.
Yet, there is much work to be done in these weeks and much to pray about for the year ahead. We desperately need a secondary school building and secondary school teachers. We hope to build a simple, four-classroom secondary school with a store room. We are yet to know where either funds or money may come from…. Emma, Loice and Rachel (Kenyan, Christian teachers who recently graduated from university) have been a pivotal gift to allow the Academy to keep learning this year. They were given to us by Focus - the Kenyan Christian Students’ Union. In January 2012, 3,500 Christian students will gather in Kenya to be “commissioned” for their call at a massive Focus conference. It sounds such an incredible event and something I can hardly dare dream that South Sudan will see one day. It seems that Marol is quite a tough location to survive in unless you are confident that God has called you there.
I am quite exhausted as I process all that has happened these last years in South Sudan. It would be good to have the time and space to do that this season. Home, in itself, lets that time trickle in but I have a tendency to keep busy. Moments of stillness are rich but not always often enough. Plus, I hope to write a couple of articles soon to sum up my academic work so far.
PS. The picture is the car of an NGO stuck in the mud. The photo was taken a couple of weeks ago on the tracks of our county.
