I am just back this morning (2:20-4:00 AM red-eye flight) from Chuuk. This weekend was the dedication of the new library building on our Chuuk campus. It was a great celebration, with lots of food of course, many speeches and songs and a time of praise for all the resources God provided to make the building possible. We are thankful for all the local and international volunteer labor that went into the building. It took a little over three years to finish it. We often struggled with lack of available materials and, at times, specially skilled labor.
But, now, to have a library with easily accessible books, study areas, a group study room, offices and computer lab is a great blessing to the students and staff. It was great to see the students already making use of it. We still need prayer for a solution to our need for internet access (Tol island is very remote with no basic infrastructure, water power etc) and other modern communication tools. I also had a good chance this weekend to spend time with our Chuuk faculty, staff and students and a chance to preach in the campus Sunday church service. God is doing some great things with our 60+ students on the Chuuk campus and the 35 students at the Chuuk Teaching facility in the district center. I will be home for a couple weeks to finish my intensive Wisdom Literature class on Guam and then I will be off to Yap and Palau in February to teach the same class there.
I am just back this morning (2:20-4:00 AM red-eye flight) from Chuuk. This weekend was the dedication of the new library building on our Chuuk campus. It was a great celebration, with lots of food of course, many speeches and songs and a time of praise for all the resources God provided to make the building possible. We are thankful for all the local and international volunteer labor that went into the building. It took a little over three years to finish it. We often struggled with lack of available materials and, at times, specially skilled labor.
But, now, to have a library with easily accessible books, study areas, a group study room, offices and computer lab is a great blessing to the students and staff. It was great to see the students already making use of it. We still need prayer for a solution to our need for internet access (Tol island is very remote with no basic infrastructure, water power etc) and other modern communication tools. I also had a good chance this weekend to spend time with our Chuuk faculty, staff and students and a chance to preach in the campus Sunday church service. God is doing some great things with our 60+ students on the Chuuk campus and the 35 students at the Chuuk Teaching facility in the district center. I will be home for a couple weeks to finish my intensive Wisdom Literature class on Guam and then I will be off to Yap and Palau in February to teach the same class there.
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