Preschool update

I’ve decided to try to make this preschool thing a reality and I’m running as fast as I can after it, but hitting every pothole, as is the way in Africa. But I’m still really excited and finding more support from the church than I expected.
They gave me an old building to fix up, sitting on a big compound with a huge tree and room enough to put up some makeshift play things. Pastor G and Akili (the education guy) are arranging for a fence to be put up around it and sound like they’ll support me as I try to make things work. My teammate Daniel has come alongside me, the self-proclaimed preschool maintenance man (he’s pretty much the practical work guy on our team), and has said he’ll help me to do a lot of the physical labor stuff—fixing up the building, painting the walls and making jungle gym-esque stuff. He’s in Loki now with Steve, trying to clear stuff for that pesky fire engine and buying me paint if there is time.
Putting together a preschool out here—with limited resources and a surplus of kids—will be a challenge, so keep it in your prayers! It will likely be months before I actually get kids in the building, and even then it will only be a dozen or so, while I try to recruit Lopit women to help and establish a routine and see what works. My parents are coming in August, so I’m going to try to convince them to bring supplies from the good ol’ United States of America.
Some things to pray about for the school…
-That God would supply the Lopit labor and materials to build the fence, because not much can be done before that.
-That the church would continue to support the project like it is. (Praise God for that!)
-That I would find a good balance between beginning something with my resources and making that something renewable and able to be continued with the Lopit’s. (I really don’t want dependency, in money, supplies or the work, especially teaching.)
-That I would find a good contact here in Africa who has experience and know-how in the area of preschool—some organization or person that I can learn from and maybe get training materials from. (Finding such contacts is hard from the bush.)
-That the children and the community would be blessed by the project and they would come to know Christ as a result!
There you have it. Thanks a lot for the prayers