Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Because
of the difficulty to find Email easily, we wish to crave your
indulgence to bear with me as we need to share the information below
with other prayer partners.
We
are getting back with you now as yesterday we could not write any
longer, due to the Email situation we faced. However, better later than
never they say. Thank you brother, for not forgetting us in your
praying lists. All we have read from your
message is telling us here that you are concerned and you care. Is
there a way we can receive that brochure you’ve made brother? Is it in
any webpage?
The wall, it will be great if the Lord can allow you to help us put it up. It
is a big challenge. Our students cannot make a little experimental farm
because the wall is not there; the land is open to goats, sheep, pig,
chicken dogs and to the public who turn it into an open toilet area.
Sometimes we inform the city about this violation of property. But we
are told “Look, build a wall around your property and nobody will bother you”
If the Lord put the wall in your heart as a burden, he will do it, but
how long will you stay with us and how long will it take you to
complete it? Died you take the measurement of the intensity of the work
to be done? All your tentative intentions quoted below are great!
“1. set your University up with English/French language computers.
2. Spend some time doing more construction on the wall.
3. Aid the ladies of your household with their chores.”
The other things that you were possibly looking at are what I would like to address here:
1. The Internet: May
be you need to rethink the matter otherwise. Individuals both Americans
and Chadians are having it in their compounds. At the Missionary
station in Koutou, a missionary has it. In Moundou, a guy who has been
teaching in our college has it put in front of his house right there in
his compound facing our Dutch building. May be the price has come down.
Unless you do not think it necessary, you may wish to check the price
from our angle here and see before dropping it all together. Don’t you
think so? If it is not in your priority, I cannot force it in it. But
we think that it is of a big interest to us here. The other alternative
is that we may as well register with that neighbor lecturer so that we
can use it but our students have to do it on their own or go somewhere
else. Internet nowadays has become a powerful education tool, and the
prices are falling, otherwise this very guy in front of the school
could not afford it just like that.
2. The Orphanage: Now let us talk a little bit about the orphanage. Almost the whole country of Chad
is an orphanage on its own. However, some people organize here and
there a group of small kid orphans to give them help. That is why the
French people came and try to help. They call themselves the “Arch of
Zoë” but finish their adventure very miserably. They gathered 103 kids
ready to take off with them without informing the French government.
They wanted to go with those kids to France and shelter them into some designated families. The
police was informed and stopped the operation. The French President has
to come personally to rescue some members of the crew. But the Air
Craft they used has been impounded and the rest of the staff of that
organization had been tried at court sentenced to hard labor before
sending them to France where they are supposed to carry out their imprisonment chores. Hence anybody who comes to Chad
and mention orphanage is seen as a suspect, a person who is out for
young people to deport in order to sell their body parts. Before you
intend to go and visit an orphanage, you will be put into strong
questioning to find out whether you are out for real.
There
is a Pastor here who is running an orphanage here in Moundou. His name
is Pastor Bako. He is the incumbent Secretary General of the Fellowship
of Evangelical churches and Missions in Chad. His organization is funded by fellow American Christians in Wheaton.
The campus has been built in no time at all, and the orphans are
accommodated in that orphanage with dormitory, cooks, Primary and
secondary schools. Those American brethren from Wheaton
came to visit and see the work they have archived and dreamed to do
more. If you come, I will take you to the place to see. We think that
those orphans are there to fuel our college if one day they want to go
to college. I went to visit that campus twice.
In
our school here too we have orphans, I mean the ISETAER that I am
running; we have three categories of needy students: we have made up a
list of orphans. That means:
1. The students who have lost both parents,
2. Those who lost either a father or a mother and
3. The
very poor ones whose parents cannot do anything for their kids. Those
kids have to cultivate peanuts, sell them and use the product to pay
their studies. They rarely succeed to go to college with that kind of
income.
We talked to the Dutch brethren who put up the other building you saw. Out of the 33 students we have this 2007/08 academic year, 11
of them are in that miserable situation; they are the orphans. The
Dutch brethren are talking of coming in February to see us and examine
the situation of those 11 orphans, and see whether they can help us
with those orphans or not. Kindly pray for our very poor students.
Well
brother that is my feedback to your kind and fruitful message. May the
Lord himself back you up and help you reach out the way your strength
can afford. My work here is to be a facilitator who enables you to do
what you have in heart to do for the Lord abroad. My work goes with all
the risks it takes for the future. I do not have a salary except the
sustenance that you brethren sent from time to time to keep me going. I
do not have any superannuation laid aside for the old days when my wife
and I will retire, should we still be alive. But all this has to do
with faith. The Lord knows why He put in us the burning burden of
coming back and work within our community using your support. Yes, He
is not a man to come too late into a situation or to plan wrong.
May he bless you all for your support and once more Happy New Year.
Sem & Eunice Beasnael