100% Chance of Rain

James was recently in the elementary musical presentation of "100% Chance of Rain" about Noah and the flood. The music teacher did a great job with the elementary children and the musical was fun to listen to.

you shall rescue it...

"If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray,
you shall bring it back to him. 5 If you see the donkey of one
who hates you lying down under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it; you shall rescue it with him." Leviticus 23:4-5

While not our enemies, there are some neighbors who graze their goats in the neighboring vacant lot to our home. Occassionally one of them wraps itself around a branch or gets tangled in its rope and Kurt will go rescue it.

Track and Field Day

Just sharing a few photos from track and field day held April 1 at the school our kids attend. Ben and James participated in it. The high schoolers did not.

Tutoring Koreans in English

Mikayla has been tutoring several Koreans in English. Two brothers were coming quite frequently each week (2 - 5x) for tutoring in order to pass the English exam for Faith International Academy. After almost a year of working with Mikayla, they passed! Great job guys! Great job Mikayla!!!

Mikayla with her tutorees and James. The guys often played with
James when not in lessons.

Power and Water Outages

El Nino is greatly affecting us here. We've been having rotational power outages twice a day rather consistently for quite a long while now, usually 1 - 3 hours. But a few days ago they raised it to 4 hours per time and as of today it is up to 5 hours per time.

This also affects our water supply as the pumps for the city run on the electric power, so when they are off for hours the water pressure decreases and disappears, then it takes hours for the pressure in the line to build up again.....

it can be quite frustrating but we have lots of candles and store up water as much as we can.