A Logical Consequence

The Phare continues to be a busy place. We've had a number of families, missionaries and pastors, staying with us. This week there is a large group of American college students here with Campus for Christ. Jane got a chance to talk to them about the talibe. As well as the campus work that Pascal has planned for them, they want to help some in the city in general. So, they are coming in shifts of 4 each day to help Jane and Antoinette through the middle of next week.

The exciting thing today ("Each day something new" should be our slogan) is that the electric supply cable to our property just came flopping to the ground! A car rapide was leaving with a box piled on top (the old tent on its way to help Eric T. and Aaron Toombs in Mbour). The box snagged the wires. They have been "temporarily" tied up to the wall of our building since that run-away truck plowed down the pole last year. There was clearance for garbage trucks and buses, but apparently not quite enough for that box!

We have been after SENELEC for years to fix our cable. It's an old line, repaired multiple times with splices galore. And then the pole came down. Of three phases we were supposed to receive, we have had only 2 for years. Then a couple months back we lost the second one. Still SENELEC hadn't done anything. Hopefully, now they will have no choice and will replace the whole line from the street in and we'll get our three phases and it will be like it's supposed to be!

Or maybe not... Argh.

We'll keep you posted.

A Couple of Clips of the Wall

My apologies for the long absence. I've been here, but the camera hasn't been! And then it decided to quit controlling its light input so outdoor photos are impossible. Fortunately it can still take video. So here are a couple of clips of the wall from this morning. We got as far as the talibe shelter with the money we had. The last bit we added was a doorway so heading to the beach in the future will be simpler.

The place continues to be quite busy. One day last month we were even overrun with little munchkins. Well, OK. They were elementary school students on an outing. They really seemed to enjoy the trip to the "country."

Let's see. What other news?

• The Bowers are in for the month from Mali, escaping the 50C weather (that's 120F+ for you Americans of my generation). We're down to 20C (high 60s) at night here still and shivering.
  
• Toombs are supposed to come up from Mbour for the weekend. Simon is doing kindergarten in French! Izzy is catching up with home schooling. They are waiting on the finishing touches to be done in the wonderful house they found down there.
  
• Patrice is back at work, though weaker than he would like to be. He lost his mom last month as well as dealing with the hepatitis.
  
• The plumbing in Benin has been causing us problems forever. We finally had Jean Gomis tear up the floor this week. I wish I'd had the camera. What a nice clump of roots had developed in the pipe. It's PVC and isn't supposed to be prone to that problem, but it had a little crack, wide enough for a small root to snake its way in.