Safari

When we called Jared he was in Wanza(sp), he, Glen, Richard and his daughter Hannah were in the city to get plumbing supplies. They are finishing up all the toilets, making the rest of the beds.

Chacha paid for them to go on safari while they were there. He said that he saw elephants, giraffes, hippos, and pretty much everything except the big cats- too bad.. Glad he got to go one more time. He took pics.

They finished up the bee boxes, he's glad cause he got stung. His face was all swollen next morning, took a benedryl and it got better.

There are 40 children coming in Jan- the First Fruits!! Ages ranging from 2 to 10 yrs old. What a wonderful thing.

Children

We spoke to Jared this week end and he said that they had about 30 children visit The City of Hope this last week. They are some of the potential occupants! They will have to be screened and interviewed. They wanted the children to see the City. How exciting.

Well, Jared has his trip itinerary, he's coming home before Christmas. We will be so happy to see him.

Chacha's father in law, Glen is at the City. He can do most anything.. they are finishing the bathrooms and the plumbing. He's got carpentery projects to do for all of them. Jared will be coming back to the States with Glen in Dec. I am glad he will have someone to travel with. They get to go through Zurich on the way home, that will be cool.

More next week. Cathy

Got an email from Jared, thought I would share some of it. Today we kind of took the day off and went into Sirari, which is on the border of Tanzania and Kenya, we also were able to walk over to the Kenya side as well to do a little bit of walking around and shopping. I didn't shop but Peter and Zoe did. There is alot of people here who are excited about Obama winning the election. It's no surprise to me that he won. I hope he does a good job. It is historical him being the first president of the United States of color. I bet there are all sorts of wild reports coming out in the news. People today were walking around shouting Obama at us. It was pretty funny. We also ate lunch at a hotel restaurant and waited about two hours for our food, that's the type of service you get here in restaurants. I had fried chicken and french fries, it was pretty good. Chacha left for South Africa on Tuesday. He will be coming back here later with Glen and staying for a couple of weeks. I have been assigned to taking care of the puppies, they are really wild but cute. I will definately take pics of them. I got my camera working. Right now we have to keep them in the garage until we build a fence for them outside, it'll be a chain link fence. We will probably start working on it tomorrow. They sometimes poop in there, so I have to shovel it up. There names are simba (lion), chuie (cheetah) and jack.
Jared

When we spoke to him Sun he said they were almost finshed with the chain link pen for the puppies, will be more room for them to move around. I am glad he got his camera working, will expect some picks at least when he comes home.

More next week. Cathy

Adventure Continues

Jared just returned to The City of Hope from Nirobi, Kenya. They spent a wk there and got their new work visas for Tanzania. He said Nirobi is quite an advanced city, lots of shopping malls with all the conveniencies. What an adventure he's having! They brought back 3 german shepard puppies who will grow up to keep them safe and for company. He said they are really cute, one is a grayish color.

They brought back their van, which had been repaired.

They have been taking walks there. Beautiful trails and views of the mountains. I can only imagine. I don't know if he got his camera working yet-old one that uses film. I hope so, pictures will be wonderful..

He may be home by the first of the year, and hopefully the children will be there before then.

Chacha is there now, and will be until tomorrow when he leaves for So Africa, for their graduations from Teamworks Bible School. They usually have hundreds of graduates. I did the certificates and diplomas for them when I was helping a couple of wks ago. It's funny, such a small office in an obscure little town in America, can have such a profound affect on so many people all around the world..