Power

8th Grade sneak!  What a blast!  Parents surprised the 8th Graders while they are in school with a fun overnight getaway.  The other day the 8th graders thought they were going to PE class but we had other things planned for them.  We surprised them, got them out of school, drove them into Jayapura (1 hour away) to the Mall for a scavenger hunt, games, dinner, an overnight in a mission guesthouse.  Then on Friday we took them to the lake for a day of tubing, wake boarding etc.  They had SO much fun!  Way better than school I heard.  Haha.

As a dorm we had planned to go to the beach on Saturday but so many of the kids were wiped out, and sun burnt that we decided to wait a week.  The plan is to go this week instead.

Happy May Day!  It is coming fast!  School is out May 28th.  There are a lot of activities planned between now and then.  For me a lot of them involving food.  I am helping out with quite a few of the events, cooking the food.  I really enjoy that.  Tomorrow we have no school and have Track and Field day.  There is a mission school a short plane ride away and they are coming to join us in an all school event.  The High School kids are mixed in with the younger grades and help them with the various activities of the day.

One of our dorm girls brought us a Cassowary egg from her village.  It was huge.  Have you ever seen one?  Well, I cooked it up and it filled up my largest skillet.  This one egg easily fed 8 kids.  Crazy!

One thing you get quite used to here is the power going off.  Sometimes it is only off for a few seconds, but other times it is off for quite awhile.  Things

 don't work the same here as they do in America.  There isn't enough power for everyone to be on at the same time.  So, the power company decides who gets power and who doesn't, and will just randomly shut things off.  Funny how it doesn't stop anything.  If the pastor is preaching, or a teacher is teaching or we are eating dinner...life just goes on.  I am so very thankful it is not like that with God.  He never says, "Hey, I don't have enough power to help all of you at the same time, so just sit tight and wait.  I will come back to you."  Ha.  Just the opposite.  He tells us He is there just waiting for us to let Him help, to let Him be our strength.  The fullness of His power is available to all of us, all the time, at any time.  So, why do we try to live life in our own strength?