Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Not much leg room and a few mechanical problems but what a great crew!

We just finished Day 4 of our Sky's the Limit science camp. The kids have been busy observing, hypothesizing and measuring...how much air weighs, the time it takes objects to fall to the ground, etc. Lauren described this week's lessons on air and gravity as "the things you have to overcome in order to fly." After four days of camp we also have a list of things for God to overcome in order for our kids to fly. So please pray!

1) We have 40 children attending camp, divided into five classes. Those of you who have visited our center know that it is not spacious! Every square inch is getting used, and classes take turns walking to a local park to conduct their experiments. Praise God that after some trial and error the space is working. Please pray for a spirit of peace to rest upon every part of our full-to-bursting facility.

2) Our six summer interns are doing a GREAT job teaching reading, writing, math and science. But they are also very tired. They teach from 9am-3pm, plan from 3-5pm and have been taking more prep work home each evening. Fridays are set aside to plan for each coming week. Please pray that they can get enough done tomorrow that next week won't feel so crazy. Pray too that God will make Isaiah 40 true for them all summer: That they will mount on wings of eagles...run and not grow weary...walk and not faint.

3) Of the six computers in our tutoring center, only 3 are functional right now. And two of those three do not have Microsoft Office loaded. That leaves just one machine that the kids can use to chart this week's measurement data in Excel. Would you ask God to provide 2 or 3 new machines for the kids to use?

4)The air conditioner that cools our front room is working beautifully. But the one in our back room only cools the few inches of air directly in front of it. So far a fan has been doing the trick. Please pray for mild weather between now and the end of July so the kids can work comfortably.

1 comment:

  1. 3) The simplest solution to this problem is to just install Open Office made by Sun Microsystems.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Calc
    http://download.openoffice.org/index.html

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