The Internship’s Over!!!
We love our interns, and now they’re gone…
Our 2009 Interns
Wow!! That was some of the MOST intense 10 weeks of our lives! The interns were fantastic and we wish they could stay here in Africa (one is coming back - yay!), but there was so much other stuff happening at the same time:
- The truck came in - this involved a week-long trip to Ghana. Boy, did that transform our internship for the better! The 4 interns took our old van and we made all our long trips with style…
- The Flood. Wow, that was amazing. Ouagadougou is still picking up the pieces. We were able to help in a couple of different ways - by running a kids’ program with games, puppets and film - which really gave a lot of joy, and we gave out blankets and food and mats. We will be doing more.
- Prep for Give a Kid a Christmas. Enough said…
- Sickness… ALL of us got sick. One of our interns (actually the one coming back, if you can believe it) got Typhoid, Malaria, Amoebas and an infection. All at the same time…
- I’m sure there’s more, but I’m blocking it out right now
Well, needless to say, we are going to take 6 hours off. Then we have 1300 more gifts to wrap, outreaches to plan and we are getting ready for our Regional Directors coming in on monday.
OK, breaks up.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:47 am
So glad your internship was a success. I am sure you impacted their lives and their futures, regardless if they will be missionaries. Our internship begins in just 56 days. I am finding that preparation this time around is much easier, still busy, but easier. God bless you all, and we look forward to seeing you at Reunion.
November 10th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
JOEL!!!
I just got home and told about the Ford…. whatever. BUT: my little brother JOEL knows the whole description perfectly. There he goes:
“2001 Ford F 150 Triton V8 Supercrew 4×4 XLT”
–> see?? I’m a good influence.
The whole time was great!! Until next time.