Installment 24

Installment 24
Sometimes I wonder if I’m helping or hindering. Woven through my blogs is a picture of Africa, and hidden and maybe not so hidden is how I see the amount of work load that Jeff and Carla are under. Two people on 20 acres of land with 34 employees, 93 children with no other recourse, 3 dogs, and currently one slightly deranged mzungu visitor..I mean me, not Dale. (I’m not saying that Dale isn’t deranged, however) 20 acres of farm land that needs to be managed and tended. 93 children that need love, attention, fed, clothed, cared for…some with sever medical and physical needs…maybe like your kids. 34 staff, mostly single women, who need direction, care and oversite and all the employee paperwork and payroll. 3 dogs, (1 that probably needs medical attention in the form of a lethal injection) that need their little piece of attention. A local populace that needs to loved and because TIA need to be watched. A government that often little cares about the people and especially the children that they are charged with, but have the time to hassle places like this with incidentals. Food suppliers that don’t always have what is needed. And then there is always the ongoing maintenance needs of the land, buildings, borehole and vehicles. Oh yeah and then there is KPLC…Other than that, I can see nothing that J & C do. I mean, after all, there are two of them…24 hrs in a day and only 7 days in the week...and why would they need sleep? Now, mind you, I don’t know this for a fact, as I go to bed at 8:00pm and get up somewhere around 9:00am, but the rumor is that Jeff seems to enjoy living with lack of sleep, as after checking on the night guards throughout the night and starting the generator when the stima (electricity) wires are empty, he gets up at alittle after 5 to help the staff start their day. But then he just lolls around for the next 15 hrs and then takes some of the aunties home so they don’t have to walk in the dark, and then makes sure that the compound is buttoned up for the night, before he goes in for a nice restful sleep like the night before….at around 10:30pm. Just so you know, I’m the one doing the whining, the only grumbling I’ve heard from Jeff is that he wishes he had more time to love on the kids.  And while J is doing that, I only see Carla out of the office at times just to play with and hold kids.  Oh, and then their is the oversite of the visitor teams that come....not so easy as it sounds.
So all this, and I show up to start a building project of 2 major buildings, only to leave long before they can be finished….with who (or is it whom) left to oversee them. But then, having been a building contractor for almost 40 years, I know it is a piece of cake to build…especially in the 3^rd world.... And once they are built, who staffs them?
Pole (sorry) I sound like I am complaining, something that I haven’t heard here, and I guess I am alittle, not for me, but for what I see here. But, like I have said many times before, and see everyday, this is a place of miracles and our God has proven Himself here so many times…He loves these kids…and J & C. So, if you have time, pray for this place….and especially for J & C….they would say for the kids, remember the whole operation.
Now, this is just between you and me. Cuz I have enough problems of my own, so if J & C found out what I just said, they get after me.