Update: 8.27.09

Alright so we are almost done with our third week of school and it is crazy to think how fast it is going. I can't believe tomorrow is Friday, especially since this was our first full week of school.

Anyway, tomorrow we are leaving for a Student Council retreat. It will be Jackie and I as the advisors and the representatives from the student council. The idea is to get out of the city and plan the whole year. Some of the things on the agenda are:
- Ways that the student council can reach out to the community (service ideas)
- How the student council can affect the whole school, rather than just the high school
- Fundraising events
- Lock-ins
- Banquets
- and plenty more (pretty much there is something scheduled every month

We found out what exactly our service projects are going to be for the school as well. Jackie and I will both be going with the 10th grade class to go to one of the poorest communities in southern Bogota to evangelize to the street kids and some other families. I am super excited to get down there and work with this ministry. Then on the fourth Saturday of every month I will be going with the high school guys to a farm where we are going to work with street kids that are brought to this farm to learn how to enter society (it is a ministry that is run by one of the teachers at the school) and Jackie will go with the girls to a ministry for pregnant teens in Bogota (some as young as 11).

School is going well and I think we are both getting more comfortable with what we are doing. I am enjoying being with the little kids a lot more than I thought. Jackie also had one of her best lessons so far the other day in Science. She did a fossil activity and she said the kids loved it so it was awesome to see how happy she was after that.

We are also still settling into our apartment, we did get internet but we are having problems setting up our wireless, so hopefully we get that fixed soon so I can update more.

Please pray for the Franklin Graham festival which is in Bogota tonight through Saturday. Also, continue to pray for Jackie's health, she is still having stomach issues and today she woke up feeling bad (she went to school though and stuck it out). We are just not sure why she is having so many problems - altitude, food, water????? The water is actually okay to drink in Bogota from the tap but we don't really do that a whole lot. So, anyway just pray that things get better for her.

Hope everyone is enjoying the last days of August! God bless you all and I hope to update you more tomorrow!