Well I am back for m the children's home again. I do enjoying going out there and staying with the children. I hope you don't get tired of me writing.
Well I took the children to the nearest health care clinic to be seen. It seems that the one (near by) is only 23 kilometres away. Just down the road. Funny thing is its only 28 k back to the house in Kalomo. Anyway, the three oldest boys went. I especially have had a burden to get Lovemore to the clinic because of this fungus on his body. They didn't see Blessing because he is well.
Sibajane is on Amoxicillin for his cough.
Now Lovemore -as you recall from my last communication is sick. So please keep in prayer to our Father for healing. He has a fungus that is all over his body growing on his skin, he has scaring on his right eye, and I don't know how much of his vision is impaired. He weighs only 52 lbs and is tall. I don't know his height but he is tall when compared to the other children here. So the clinical officer is concerned that he may be immune comprised. He tested him for HIV and the first test showed positive. He did a second test that showed negative. So now he has referred him to Zimba where they hopefully will do further testing and make sure that the antifungal medication is the proper one for the fungus he has. He should also be able to visit the eye clinic there in Zimba. Zimba is a Wesleyan Hospital just south of us. It will take 30 mins. to get there from Kalomo and 2 hours from the House of Faith. So I will keep you all updated as to the outcome of Lovemore.
It is most important that we pray for complete healing for this child. Your Father is able to do everything and people here have been healed of HIV before by our Father. I personally have had 6 children test negative after being positive; so I have great Faith!
I am sending many pictures of our time together. Our greatest adventure was a bat flew into the latrine and got stuck on the fly paper. So I had Golden, a man strong in the Faith. bring it to the school. I thought what a great opportunity for the children to see a real live bat. Many thought that they were birds that just flew at night. Of course they do have birds here that fly at night, but these bats are a little different. The teachers had never seen a bat before either, so I had to tell them about how they are blind and us a radar to fly and they eat bugs and mosquitoes. I got to be the teacher for a while. They wanted to know whether it was a mammal or a bird, or a rat with wings! It was a real treat.
The other pictures is how the evenings are spent around a fire, they enjoy roasted maize at harvest -that's the only time they have it because the rest of the maize will be dried and stored for eating through out the year. I also took out some marshmallows, chocolate, and some graham crackers my sister had sent to me. We made samores. They thought they were too sweet. I could not believe I was hearing that.
They put so much sugar in tea and the porridge, but they thought the samores were too sweet. So any way they did like roasting the marshmallows. School is closing for the break. It will reopen in May, so I plan to be out there a lot this month teaching the children as much as I can. So thank you for all your prayers and I will be talking to you soon. Your faithful Servant, Jo Anne <><
Please keep the home, the staff, and most of all the children in your prayers. Blessings, Scott
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