We got rain!!! We got a serious amount of rain! The cistern is more than ½ full of rain water. We will let it settle for a couple days and then Steve will put chlorine in it and we will pump it up into the big poly tanks! Everyone was so excited to see the rain! Divine was here this morning when it started to rain. Divine is a farmer and last year at this time he had already planted his peanuts. He will plant them as soon as the tractor can get to his field to plow. He plants his peanuts in a very strange way. Before the tractor comes to plow he will broadcast the peanuts and then the tractor will plow over the seeds and bury them as he plows. Divine said that when he does it this way the ground under the seeds will remain soft and the peanuts have a chance to spread out in the soft dirt and grow bigger than if he plants them the traditional way.
It rained heavily most of the morning and then drizzled for a while this afternoon. Of course because it was raining the mothers did not come to the Child Center and the female employees did not come either because it was raining heavily when it was time for them to come to work. The only reason Mr. Iddrisu and Nazo were here was because they start work earlier than the ladies.
Mr. Iddrisu and Nazo were huddled up on the veranda this morning trying to keep warm. They could not do any of the outside work so I had them come in the house and help us sort baby clothes. We finished sorting the clothes by lunch time so we took a break. Then this afternoon we started sorting the big people clothes. One of the big churches in the Kumasi area sent us hundreds of pounds of clothes. They want us to share the clothes with the churches we work with. This time most of the clothes were women’s clothes. We sorted them and culled out the unappreciated clothing and the clothes that had holes. We had very little to cull but we wanted to make sure that none of those short-shorts were sent to the churches; there is no way we want anyone to think we approve of such things.
Tichak’s family brother finally sent someone with the orphan baby this afternoon after the rain stopped. The baby looked good. They had bought a can of formula to feed her. She does not have a name and they have not decided who is going to take care of her. They said that those were decisions they would have to make after they had completed the funeral. The baby’s mother delivered the baby at her house but she began to hemorrhage and died on the way to the hospital. So sad! Many of the husbands do not think that their wives need to go to the hospital to deliver; it shows weakness on the part of the woman. Please!
Please keep this baby in your prayers.
In His Service,
Steve and Kandie
