School supplies delivered .

 We started early this morning making popcorn and getting things ready for the mountain school house.  We had $100 come in last night , so we just need $400 more to cover today's deliveries. 

20 kids were there and received school supplies.

The parents were so relieved to get these supplies,the kids were more pleases with the popcorn , juice and cotton candy. 

The teachers got a big box of supplies as well as a large bottle of honey.

They have about three weeks to go then the new school house will be ready .. 

After giving out the gifts we drove through the traffic up the mountain to the water falls. 

Great day .. now we are back to the farm .  I will take it easy, but the family is busy with Nick working on fences with max. 

Calling in the resources

 

The fall is always an expensive time , getting ready for winter Kids back to school, are just some of the needs.  As the needs have started to pile up, I am taking a couple days now to highlight some of the needs .. please consider helping at this time, and please share this need with others so that we can get them taken care of before we leave in just  10 days . 

I got a message last night about this six year old Erika.  Erika mom is a single mom from an orphanage herself, and Erika has ASD autism and speech and development delay.  Her mother brought her to a home orphanage we work with, but her needs are too much for them . Erika needs specialized treatment. This is available at a specialized center, but costs $205 USD a month .       

If we can find any sponsors to help with this, our worker will get this money to the school each month .  others are trying to find help as well , so any amount would be a blessing to them .  

Last night we had some help bringing in some hay .  Henry and Jonathon were hard at it . 

The coal is still on the move it is about $500 USD a truck load and that is enough for 5 families . we are hoping to start doing some deliveries this week . One truck at a time as donations come in for this. 

On the 15th will be the first day of school for the little mountain school house. there are about 20 kids that we would like to bring supplies to as well as 3 teachers .  @ $25 each , we will need $575 for this day.  

We have lots of other kids we work with going back to school  well .  $50 here and $100 there ,  it all adds up I would like to find $500 to help back fill some of the money we have already spend and still need to spend . 

There is a women's shelter that we have helped in the past and has has asked for help again this year .   We helped them with coal the last couple years . there are about 40 kids there . they need $1700 for the coal this winter.  We don't have money for that ourselves, so we will only be able to help if some one sends a substantial coal donation and designates it for them ... but it is getting colder at nights already.   

And the next big need that we are working on is for a refrigerator for the orphanage that we took to the lack last week . The cheapest one we can find is $300 USD , but the best would be about $500 USD so the question is , do we serve a God of the cheapest or the best, you decide . 

Son may needs and can be overwhelming , but I am reminded that the resources  are tied to the calling , the calling is not tied to the resources .. so its time for some resources to be called in . 

Many hand make light work ... Even little hands.

 Yesterday we cut thistles and burned them to get ready for events at the Kashar .  

We had several families for a wonderful lazzy day at the Kashar today 

Lots of games .

We had hot dogs roster on sticks and awesome french fries . 

Rock painting is always a big hit . The kids love it .

Then some more games 

They even had horse riding .

We were not back qt the farm for 5 minutes and the family was hard at work putting down new gravel on the driveway and the laundry area

Landscaping cloth went down first .

It sure goes fast when there are so many working hands 

They even did the driveway. Q

An early start to the day.

We were up and on the road before the sun this morning.  We saw it rise as we were driving out to the orphanage to wave the kids off to Lake Issyk Kul

It's a great big bus but it needs to be to carry 80 kids plus shaperons and even a couple police officers .

The kids were pretty excited to be going 

There was a day when we would have been on that bus with the kids , but now we are happy to wave them off. 

We then went out to see Tanya .  Her youngest was born 2 months early and had a lot of health issues. One of them was a hernia.  They could not operate until he was eight months old.  So next week he is scedualed for surgery.  She has asked us if we could find someone to help with that. It is going to be $300.   UPDATE.. this need has been met. Thank you 

We left her with an assurance that the operation would be covered .. she has enough to be worried about right now.. so the $300 is up to is to worry about now haha.

After visiting we went into town and did some shopping to get the guest house ready for the family coming.   A couple days ago we found a used fridge for them that is bigger then the bar fridge we had.. they will be able to use it, then when they go, we will bring it to one of the hospitals that have asked us for one.

But for now it is stocked up with food ready for a family of 10.

We also added an oven and a gas hot plate so they have everything for cooking . 

The cupboard is stocked up as well.  Enough to do them for a few days until they get settled in.

Even a cupboard of new cleaning supplies and extra towels . 

And of course a basket of toys for the smaller kids . 

I I am typing this , they are on a complimentary tour of Istambul provided by Turkish air if you have a long layover.

Tonight Jayne will be heading for the airport. Her flight leaves at 2:30 and the family arrives at 4:30 .  It's going to be a busy night.