What's happening?

Rainy Season

So whats happening in Kadiolo now? Thats what your question was isn't it? It is now the end of rainy season, all the roads look like this. But underneath the puddles are the holes the water has carved out of the road during the past few months.
Travel will be more difficult until a grader comes through to help us a bit.

Canning tomatoes. Lisa, Laura, and Jan had a bit of a tomatoe canning party Friday.
Tomatoes are in season now, and just pennies will buy a lot of them. So the ladies went into production. We're hoping that they will be able to make salsa and other tasty items with them. (We havent seen a bottle of Pace salsa in 2 years! So a bit of salsa will go so well with the tortillas that one of our Christian women has started to make!
Of course, the ladies all had a good time of canning fellowship!

And here you can see some of the results!


Sunday it was my turn to preach. I preached on Revelation again. I did chapter 7.
People, esp church leaders are scared of Revelation, because it is complicated, and it leads to so many eschatological discussions. (end times debates.) So they shy away. I have been teaching it to the youth. One man told me it is too complicated for the youth to hear. I said, we all learn at our own level of ability. So we read the passage, and ask "what did that say? Sometimes implied is what did that not say?"
So anyway, I feel like I'm helping people realise they can study the Bible for themselves, and not to be intimidated into not reading.

We're waiting a bit to start "in school" Bible clubs. Soon Pastor Youssouf will ask the principals of at least 2 local schools, maybe as many as 4 if they would accept french Bible clubs to be taught in school after hours. The students are lacking in french, and our offer is for them to interact with Bible based material in french, giving them the chance to improve their handle on this very important language in Mali. Pray that those responsible are open to the idea, even willing and excited about someone caring about their students!

Thanks again for stopping by,
Tom & Lisa Seward