February 2009

2004 1.40i Toyota Corolla

I was going to buy an small Renault at first, but when Elijah (AL Mechanic) looked at it he said it wasn't worth buying it. Therefore, we looked for another car for a week and found this Toyota at a big car lot. My plan was to buy a car for about $40000 rand ($6000 Can), but went over my budget by $20000 rand ($2000 can). By the time I registered it and fixed a few things on it I payed about $60000 rand ($8000 can). The system is so corrupt here. I had to pay the car dealership extra money under the table so that my car would pass the road worthy test and that people can drive without insurance in S. Africa. Yes, I did buy insurance and they said that my car is worth more than I bought it for ($720000). Well, at least I can now drive, but will have to spend less on other things.




Mama Nosandla is the Principle of one of the preschools and is also the pastor of her church. I had asked her to see if she was interested in becoming one of the coordinators of LOVEa ministry. I told her that it will take two years to train her. She would have to quit being the principle of her school because the LOVEa ministry is a full time job, but can still be a pastor of her church. She would also need to go back to school for ECE training. Pray that God will help her with this decision.





On Sunday Feb 1st, Joy and I went to AL campsite to fast and pray for the evening. We have this great campsite, but can't use it because the neighbors are in a legal battle with AL because they don't want us to use the public road access that we share with them. Pray that this will be resolved soon. The picture above is Pastor Focus and his son Daniel. They are the caretakers of the campsite and they are from Zimbabwe. We passed on two bibles from Paul that was in their language. He was so excited because he's never had a bible in his language before and couldn't stop reading it. He said it was the best gift he'd ever received.



Someleze Educare Centre was the last school to be built that I never saw.




Pray for the Mfluweni Educare Centre because they haven't started their school yet, even though most of the schools started in late January.






They even have a bird's nest growing in their school.




This is another new school in Bekela and we are putting tiles on the preschool.



These are the neighbors watching us put the tiles on the floor.



We started to paint the Mechanical Shop.



Paint and Braii at the Mechanical shop. The next process is painting the outside and putting on the commercial floor that cost a fortune.



This is Vanessa and she just arrived from Germany. She will be my roommate for only a week because my room is too small.