Andy in South America

Hey everyone!

So today I learnt my lesson about making sure you explain things very clearly to kids when you are teaching……

As part of the Maths Challenge, today one of my classes got the privelege of using the few (rather slow and old) computers we have to do some researching to find the colours of football shirts, flags and logos to decorate their presentations. Beforehand I carefully explained to them that they could only use the computers for the task at hand, and not to play games or download music or anything like that (spoil sport I know, but give them an inch and they take a mile with our kids!).

So everything was going swimmingly, until I turned around and saw two of the kids with a picture of  rather scantly-clad brazilian woman in a very small bikini! I obviously kicked them out the class and told them to go and return and do some other work they had to do.

I then went to where they were to give them the opportunity to explain their actions and their excuse was priceless: they were keeping to the rules because the bikini was of the brazilian flag and they were trying to find out the colours of it………

Moral of the story – be very clear about your instructions to 10 year old boys…….

Bendiciones

Andy

Hey everyone

Am putting this up only because I few people have seen this in the news and asked me about it. Yesterday there were two minor explosions in La Paz but in targeted areas which were not for the general public (although one was in a bus terminal – it was for a specific group it seems from reports). I have linked one of the sites here.

Please pray for those affected by this event, and also for a close friend of mine who was working in the office below that targeted in on of the attacks and was one of the first on scene.

Bendiciones

Andy

Hey everyone

So my August prayer update is now out. You can access it via the prayer newsletters page or by clicking here.

Bendiciones

Andy

Hey everyone

So I think this weekend has been one of the hardest moments since I have been out here, or at least for a while. Whilst out with the team on Saturday we met a couple of girls we know spend most of their time on the streets – they make money by selling glue and thinner to the kids on the street. One of them has recently had a baby. Whilst they were eating their lunch I took the baby for a while, who is now three months old. It was the lightest, malnourished baby I had seen for myself, ever. It was horrific. I have to be honest I am still trying to process it.

Please pray for this baby, although they don’t sleep on the street, they spend most of the day and a good bulk of the night on the streets, in really dangerous situations.

Please pray for God to break into their lives – I just felt so helpless in the situation.

Bendiciones

Andy

Hey guys!!

Just to let you know we have had our first day climbing with the kids which was awesome. Eight months after starting the project it has now started which is awesome. We took eight of the kids out in the afternoon, and are taking more kids out during the week. It was great to see how the kids got into it and they all seemed to enjoy it! No accidents too hehehe!

First day climbing

Thank you so much to those who made this possible, individual donors in the UK, Needles Sports in the Lake District who gave us such an amazing price on the gear, and finally Dan Bailey photos who gave us permission to use images without a charge for the publicity.

Bendiciones y amor a todos

Andy