It's great to be alive on Wednesday! Chapel at 9 AM -- on Wednesday the MITS students do their own chapel while I have a session of encouragement and advice with the Team. I talked to them about our December schedule with the property - we're getting the new computer rooms ready, and we are re-finishing the Learning Center courtyard, so we all have to stay out of the Learning Center for 9 days. I also presented a proposal for MITS Policy on how we deal with parental (or other relatives of our kids) requests. We have to be very careful about having anyone take a student off our property without one of our Team. Too many bad things can and do happen. We had an incident recently where a mother, even in the presence of one of our Team, started beating on her daughter, as sweet a girl as you could want in your family! So we apologized to the girl today and started writing new policies.
Today after chapel, Darlene and I spent an hour and a half with all the students - we have 81 now - while the Team met with the Pepperdine graduate students in social entrepreneurship who are visiting. We made ornaments, had 3 of our "wild at heart" boys set up a Christmas tree, had 3 or our "captivating" girls put the bling on, then had all the students put on their ornaments.
Here are two of the guys putting theirs on the tree. Afterwards we sang holiday songs, some in Swahili. We have one to the tune of "Deck the Halls" and "Joy to the World" has been translated into Swahili (Furaha kwa Ulimwengu).
We also said goodbye to Shaley Craycraft and Kristin Pizalate, Aggies for Christ interns who have been with us for several months. They did video of various kids saying goodbye and greeting their families and AFC.
The kids then sang "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" to the interns.
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