The Sakeji area has had a lot of rain over the last couple of months. The
result is roads that are difficult to get through even with four wheel
drive. Here is a sample!
reading of the Scriptures. We feel it is such a privilege and a real
responsibility to have a room full of boys listening to God’s Word. It is
even more of a privilege for boys to have the opportunity to be taught daily
the sacred text in the dorm and classroom. In the dorm after the reading,
all the boys must answer a question correctly. We do want the Word to enter
deeply into their heart, and to lead them to the Saviour.
work putting up another new sign that they made in their craft class. Come
and visit us!
in making new signs to direct people to the school. They cut and planed the
planks, designed the sign on paper, transferred the outline to the plank,
and then embedded the lettering with a router, painted the letters, and
finally sanded and varnished the finished product. You can see them putting
up one new sign on a rainy day, happy with the finished product.
Work is in progress to give the boys at Sakeji hot water too. To be
courteous, we began with the girls! But the boys will soon be rejoicing with
enough hot water for baths and showers for all of them.
Can you recognize things in this picture? It is taken at the corner of the
girls’ dorm (used to be boys dorm before 1994) with the wood burning hot
water heater heating the old tank at the top of the building at the top
middle of the picture. The new tank connected to the older solar panels is
in front of it, and then two new sets of solar water heaters on the left. A
great improvement — not only were baths warm, but the girls even had hot
water for washing this morning!
Mr. & Mrs. Poidevin enjoyed a lovely visit to Amano in December 2009, and
the highlight of course was seeing the students who were from Sakeji. Here
we are.
Most of the morning was a deluge of heavy rain — but as soon as it cleared
the workmen were back at the new project, trying to get hot water to the
girls’ dorm. With Mr. Wideman’s help, the men have put a new hot water tank
on top of the tower at the girls’ dorm, and built a stand to hold two
further sets of solar water collectors and tanks. Since the tanks are also
connected to electricity, it is almost guaranteed hot baths and showers for
the girls now! What a pleasant change.
It has been some time since the Sakeji website got a face lift. Enjoy the new look! We have now merged the Sakeji.org and Sakeji.com sites. There is lots to look forward to. Keep checking this site for more.
