How many Lutherans does it take to build a shelf?

Our project today at Rwamagana Lutheran School; Annie, Pastor Joe, Pastor Annabelle, Gary and myself are tasked with building a shelf to store school supplies in the storage container. Jean was tasked with documenting all the school supplies that we brought with us for the school (microscopes and goggles for the science classes), and Lola was in the library organizing the books and repairing damaged ones. After located the wood for shelves we start to look for tools. I soon begin to realize that power tools are a luxury for us!

We started sawing boards to make the shelves and after two hours of sawing boards we finally had one half done before lunch!

After lunch we continued our task of building the shelving unit, and at some point there was doubt that we would finish in time, but right before the clocked struck 4, we nailed the final piece of wood and the finished product was absolutely amazing!

Completing the shelf was a physical accomplishment to help the school and Robin was simply overjoyed that we completed the task; but the relationships with the kids are what was most important while being at the school for two days. I finally was able to meet Shukulu, who is 19 and the student that we at Muhlenburg sponsor! Such an amazing and bright student! She hopes to apply to go to school in Michigan or Boston in the fall of 2016 and wants to study law.

As we left the school today I think we were all in tears. The smiles and stories of the kids we met in the past two days have changed our lives and I can't wait to see them as they progress in their schooling. Such a joy to meet them all!

Jesus said, "Let the children come to me."