School is about to START !!!!!!

There are a thousand things left to be done but it is already time for school to start.  This past week was "Sports Week" when all the students who are in athletics come on campus to start training for whatever sport they will be training for.  Besides all that activity, there are still a lot of things that need to be done, both in the new gym and the old buildings as well.

When we arrived in May we made a request to the Administrator to name the street where the RV's park SOWER AVENUE.  The decision was made by the school to allow us to name the street so we ordered appropriate signs from the Colony and procured a post from the county.  After we returned from our trip to visit the Sower projects in our area, we were able to pick up the signs so now we are living on "SOWER AVENUE".

The teachers are beginning to return and the other Sower couple (George and Karen Foster) and we decided to have a picnic with a few of them.

Then it was time to make a trip to Watertown to the annual campout and baptism in Lake Kampeska.  It was a cool and gray day but those being baptized didn't care if it was raining. We spent the night with our good friends Tony and Eila and their new puppies.

It was a great day!  The ages of the 6 baptized ranged from 6 to 55.  Isn't God so amazing.

Then it was back to work preparing the new gym classrooms for the beginning of school.  Door trims needed a fresh coat of paint----

---and the bathrooms needed a whole lot of partitions.  Those partitions did not have a hole in them.  We had to drill as many as 29 holes to mount and complete a single door.

There were a lot of partitions to install!

Just putting on the finishing touches in the girls bathroom.

Of course there is still a lot of painter's tape stuck on things that weren't supposed to be painted.  It really should have been removed sooner because now it has to be scrapped off.

When we were done it was a beautiful thing.

But we have this pile of parts left over?  Oh yeah, there are 4 more sets of partitions that are supposed to go in the locker rooms clear at the other end of the building.  Football players to the rescue.

These things are heavy.  Each divider panel weighs between 150 and 175 pounds.  There is still a lot of things to do but tomorrow school starts.