1-29-10schooljailGod

1-29-10
Friday
21:08

-Good Lord, hahaa! You make me laugh; both because of Your sence of humor and because you fill me with joy.- Eiee, so much is happening so fast. There are many changes at the school. Some exciting, and some good, but sad, and some I don’t know. We went to the school today. Wow those kids!... so beautiful, and so happy and excited to see us. I was amazed at how many of the ids remembered my name. every time I heard “Timo” (tEE-mO’) my heart was refilled with happy, content excitement again and again. To see Faith, little Faith, little Esther, so many others. Over the last 2 years, some of them have grown so much that I’m not sure at first if they are who I thin they are. So good to see Susan, Isabel, Gladys, and the rest. I walked away from the school already looking forward to coming back to it again.
So… even as I have been writing this journal entry after my prayer, I have been waiting to write this: after I left the school with Caleb, I met Peter (the kid) in town. We went together to the other jail in town. When we asked about him, we were told that he went to the court that morning. We went to the court, and they said that he was going to be set free after they finished the paperwork at the end of the day. We were directed to where we could see him in his cell in the courthouse. Man, it was good to see him. He was so happy to see me, even on the other side of the cell door. So…as I was waling away with Peter, I told him about my desire to spend time with the two of them, teaching and learning about God and His Word and His Love and His Law. Peter just says “a Bible study? We could meet every week.” He said “this is a very good idea” and later he added “we could meet on Mondays and wednesdays” Holy ngombe (cow)! Wow! Sweet! You want to now another crazy thing? Bob had talked to pastor Peter about the street kids, and Peter said the best thing is to meet regularly with them to talk with them about God and the Word, cuz if you just befriend them and feed them, they will still end up in the same place as they would otherwise. Coincident?...sure.