School Update

Last week flew by as I was busy getting a house ready for our new teachers who arrived last Friday. Beth and Dawn are sisters from California who have sold their belongings and moved here to Lesotho with their daughters. They are elementary school teachers from a christian school and have been teaching for many years. I asked for help finding 2 teachers so we could start a small school and they felt God had been tugging on their hearts for awhile for them to come to Lesotho.

I am anxiously excited to see what this year will bring. I have just started my 4th year as the kids teacher and I am about to hand my job over to these 2 wonderful ladies. I know that this is for the best as I have really been feeling led to be more involved at Beautiful Gate, but it is a very big transition for all of us. The kids are used to being on campus and having me around 24 hours a day, I am used to being with them all the time as well, and now Bryan will have me working in the same office with him during the week and hopefully won't get too sick of having me around :)

There is a season for everything under the sun and this year is a season of learning to share the educational responsibilities of my kids and learning to let go of control. It is a season of learning where my place at Beautiful Gate is going to be and how God has gifted me so that I can be a useful tool in His work here. It will be a season of transitions for my family but also for the teachers as they have to learn to find balance living and teaching in the same house, learning to adapt to a new culture, trying to be good mothers to their children as they also adapt to being away from home and many other things that will come up.

Please pray for all of us as we transition and adjust together. There will also be 3 other kids joining the school and please pray for them as well as they all learn how to enjoy being together, learning together and growing into better disciples for God's kingdom. We are all feeling that this plan is from God, but we also know that with all change, there can be "growing pains."