Jill's Blog Entry 6

This has not been the best of weeks. One of our younger children has died following respiratory problems. We visited the hospital where he was on a life support machine. It is extremely sad when a much loved child dies so young.

Our new worker for the Skills for Life project has had major surgery. We visited her yesterday and prayed with her. She is beginning to make a recovery. Another member of staff has a mosquito related illness.

On a brighter note we now have over thirty children in our classes. Gradually things are coming together; the electric fans, the clocks, the tables and cupboards which make up the furniture of a classroom. The P.E. classes are up and running and the children have adapted to the new school routine. I spend some of each day visiting the classes and making sure everything is going smoothly.

I keep running into folk I have worked with or have been associated with over the years here. It is a great delight for me to see them again.

Great fun was had at the Mothers Day event. In teams you had to answer questions like"how many injections does a child receive by the age of six?" Not so easy if you don't happen to have the care of an ecuadorian infant, but my team was quite with it and although I didn't know any of the answers to the questions, we managed to win.

The Freedom in Christ course is going well. I have been hoping to introduce a Healing Rooms type prayer ministry into the church , but there is no space between the first service (150 congregants), the Sunday schools (80 people in the couples group, 22 in the older persons group, plus all the other age groups and categories) and the second service, but we managed to pray for some of the sick anyway. I am hoping to train up a small team in prYer for the sick.

We are still getting torrential rains here. They sound wonderful , especially when you are under a watertight roof, which fortunately, we are.

Jill Ball 25/5/15