I [Dad] spoke with Johanna earlier today with a good quality connection. Johanna seemed more energetic and her voice did not seem quite as tired as the previous Sunday. Whwn I mentioned it she laughed and said that maybe it had something to do with the three cups of good Rwandan coffee she had drunk that day! She also said that she had just returned from an evening worship time that she likes to go to on Sunday evenings where they sing a lot of the music from Hillsong (in Australia) in English and that always gets her energy level up too.
Because of the difficulty that she has been having accessing her home e-mail account via the web, we have set up a new Gmail account for her with which she hopes to be able to post a bit more frequently on her blog.
In only a month the class will leave for their time in Kenya. There trip to the Athi River location in Kenya will take a couple of days of travel. The exact nature of what service they will be doing there is something she still does not know in detail.
Meanwhile she and her classmates are experiencing many heavy situations. You may wish to read about an incident that her roommate, Laura, writes about in her blog post and which happened the first of the month (read down about four paragraphs about the young boy of 9 or 10). I asked Johanna about the incident and she said that some of the YWAM personnel thought that they may have seen the boy several days afterwards with one side of his face a mass of bruises but that it was hard to be certain. Johanna often (usually?) participates with Laura in the outreach to the street children and their needs are part of the reason she has returned to Africa.
She was able to meet a family from here in NH who were here last fall speaking in several of the churches. Johanna did not get to meet them at the time (but her mother did) but they have ministry in Kigali. Johanna thought that she might get to spend an evening with them before her class left for Kenya.
Johanna hopes to check out her new e-mail and post some news herself sometime this week -- so stay tuned!
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