O Proyecto Continua. The Project Continues. :)

Project Rx will be continuing with the church community, with the garden and with farming education throughout the village of Machava. After much deliberation with the church leadership, we decided it is best to proceed as planned. The major change, however, is that the Project will not be a full time endeavor.

We found that the planning and implementation of the project is highly dependent upon the time frames of the local people and the local church leadership and they are currently spread too thin to help out with the Project goals on a daily basis. We have decided to make it a part-time course and extend the length of the project in order to be able to achieve our goals.

In order to extend the length of the project, I am in the midst of pursuing a job opportunity offered to me before I left to Cape Town. We have decided I can work throughout the week, take certain days off early to teach and work in the garden, work the Saturdays they have available and reconvene with everyone on Sundays. :) This schedule is much more appropriate for the goals of education and farming, to allow independence of the local people to implement farming practices.

As for the health education goals of Project Rx, we are focusing on the production of a health education manual for teachers and students. I will be designing the materials under a timetable that we will have a better idea of once I do or do not have a job. The implementation of the health courses as originally intended have been deemed inconsistent with the education and interest level of the local people. We have decided we need more time to think about our education materials in order to create courses that children and adults will learn from.

For everyone presently working for the church, it is best that we set a more regular schedule in order to see that everyone is working collectively to accomplish all of our respective goals. We are presently quite content with the way things are going now, given that we had time to reflect on what our goals are and come to a better conclusion about how we can proceed. :)

God is doing such great things! I'm so confident in where things are going. An air of lightness is upon us. We are all continuing in the direction we are all in agreement with. =) Praise be.

Your prayers and thoughts have been everything. Thank you for your dedication. It does not go unappreciated--in fact, it's our backbone.

I've been promised my computer back by mid-January! Finally! I promise to have pictures by then. Promise, promise, promise.