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Surrounded by love
Surrounded by love
This kind of event happens all the time as I move about the little ones' section near their dormitories and the new Education Development Center (EDC). This occurred after school as I listened to more details of the life (testimony) of my long standing friend Jacob, the now Supervising Senior Beneficiary, Jacob from Turkana, (photo to follow)
The usual early start I started in the classroom at 0800 and took my three classes through to 1330. Between 1030 and 1230 I completed data collection and made arrangements for the internet link for this afternoon's video conference between grade 2/3 Manotick Public and Mully Children's Family LIVE!!!
New Ndalani Teachers
New Ndalani Teachers
Mully Model Leadership Workshop
Mully Model Leadership Workshop
This was the last of three classes for today. My topic was an examination of the gift from the Holy Spirit called Bravery. Each student had a chance to reflect on what positive lessons and gifts that emerged in their lives as a result of very difficult times.
I heard 10 different stories of significant hardship and tragedy that shocked sensibilities. And yet in every case there emerged gifts like persistence, bravery, hope, teamwork, love, honesty, social intelligence and humour. These gifts empowered these amazing survivors with the where with all, creativity and zest needed to identify and take advantage of a new path forward to a life overflowing with possibility Talk about bravery! It surrounded me today like a rays of sunshine.
The Video Conference
The Video Conference
Thanks to an amazing technology the grade 2/3s from Manotick Public School conferred live and in person with grade 2/3s at MCF. The teacher here is Helen, the senior teacher at the Primary School. Each group had a chance to ask and answer questions, show each other the sights outside the windows of the school, and sing songs. At MCF the 8 children recited memorized Bible verses, much like I did in the ancient times of the 1960s in Canada. They ended with everyone singing together the universal song "if you're happy and you know it, clap your hands..." It was an ending of solidarity across 8 times zones and vastly different cultures. While I experienced this there were goosebumps and I shivered with optimism beyond understanding.
At the end of the day are we not one under the Creator? I thought to myself we will overcome. The thought stuck me that despite many human efforts to say (do) otherwise, we the human race have dine better a civility during my lifetime than ever before. I shivered because this solidarity song by a new generation reminded me that the current chaos and pending darkness will never prevail. Darkness, greed, racial focused sense of entitlement, eugenic thinking, narcissism and power mongering will always meet their Waterloo. I pray we will see this return to civility before my life ends.
The end of the day was supper as many of the Mully family gathered. I had great chance to catch up with Isaac Mully, the webmaster and internet coordinator, withe his wife and five children. I met Ndondo Mully, the MCF Operations officer. These were moments of joyful, mirthful, and meaningful reunions that I cherish deeply. We had a chance to talk about MCF, the processes and values that is making this a very successful and remarkable African NGO dealing with a serious African problem. Seeing what can be done in real and concrete terms by faith and determination of one young is restorative, a way to heal the wounds opening up across this broken planet. As Dr. Charles and Mama Esther are wont to say, "come, visit, and see for yourselves!" Welcome, Karibo!!
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