Pray for the new school year

Just wanted to ask you to remember the BCFC Academy as the new school year begins (in Kenya it runs from January to December, with three terms). Classes resume next week so pray for the teachers and students. I'm one of the teachers! (shock) I'm teaching a couple of CRE classes (Christian Religious Education) in the secondary school -- the students will be equivalent to Form 4&5. I'm looking forward to it but a bit apprehensive as well, so keep me in prayer. Then I will be helping with the school choir until Miss Kathy Walker returns from furlough, as well as continuing the piano/keyboard lessons I have been giving.

Miss Noreen McAfee (the school headmistress) will be going on furlough in February so pray for her as she travels, and for the school in her abscence -- that everything will continue to run smoothly.

This past week, all the former pupils have been trickling back into school, and parents and prospective students have been lining the hallway outside Noreen's office to try to get places in classes. The children have to take a placement exam and have an interview (along with their parents), and then places are allocated. To give you an idea of the volume of children wanting to come to the school, 29 kids applied for a place in one of the classes, 10 passed the placement exam -- and there were only two places in the class! Even though signs are put up outside saying that there are no places left in a certain class, parents still come in and plead that their child would be admitted. Parents have been known to leave the office, having just been told that there are no places in the particular class that they're wanting, and go outside and join the back of the queue again -- only to be told the same thing a couple of hours later. So Noreen's had a long week! We are thankful, of course, that places in the school are in high demand!