April 2016 Joint Learning Session of the Cameroon
Field Education System (I'm in the back, third head from left end)
During the
April 2016 Joint Learning Session, I did literature
enrichment sessions with Kindergarten, Grades 1 and 2, and 3 and 4. A reference review with Grades 3 and 4
plus Grades 5 and 6 helped prepare students for the Iowa Standardized Test and to be
information detectives the rest of their lives.
The 2016 Summer Reading Program log was shown to students
at morning Opening. The Grades 5 and 6 class chose the theme “Bounce and Spin into Summer Reading Joy!” to go
with the jacks/ball and yo-yo prizes they selected. After 18 years in a county public library system in the U.S., I introduced a Summer Reading Program to our missionary children in Cameroon. This is the fourth such annual program that I had the privilege of spearheading for our Field Education System.
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SIL Cameroon Academic Library
Our branch was greatly saddened with the passing of the SIL Cameroon Academic Library (http://silcam.org/folder020500/page.php) head librarian Kilian Bongkiyung. Rain Forest International School Librarian Stacy Cawley and I were asked to assist temporarily with this library as responsibilities with our assigned library would permit (limited right now).
Our branch was greatly saddened with the passing of the SIL Cameroon Academic Library (http://silcam.org/folder020500/page.php) head librarian Kilian Bongkiyung. Rain Forest International School Librarian Stacy Cawley and I were asked to assist temporarily with this library as responsibilities with our assigned library would permit (limited right now).
4/22:
HAPPY DAY!!! Handing to SIL Cameroon Academic Library assistant
Jam Paul 5000 barcode labels that I retrieved and printed out on Friday. SHOCK!
Actually it is the result of teamwork and persistence undergirded with prayer
from branch members for us to conquer Koha, the academic library’s new software
system used by 22 SIL libraries around the world. Being rather electronically
challenged, I have felt so utterly incompetent and dense in trying to figure
out this new system.
THANK YOU Ron Hand, assisted by Bonnie
Lambert, for working through barcode instructions left by our late head
librarian Killian and recently given to me by a colleague in the
Philippines…instructions that were a great starting point, but did not exactly
work for the big one-time task for this library of retrieving to print barcodes
adapted by Koha from the old software program LibCat. Thank you Stacy Cawley
for clarifying for me some vital accurate details that needed to be done for
this one-time task. 5500 bar codes were printed
in correct order …12,500+ more to go so that Koha will scan the catalogued
collection used by missionaries, students, researchers and many
others who want to know more about the languages of Cameroon and Bible
translation, literacy, linguistics and Scripture engagement.
Instructions for this task updated – check. Procedure for one function in Koha conquered…PTL!
4/26: “IT IS FINISHED.” Words I hate to hear when shopping for a
particular item in Cameroon, but love to say regarding a project phase. The
PRINTING of approximate new 18,050 barcode labels for the academic library was
finished Monday afternoon because of great TEAMWORK. SPECIAL THANKS to Bonnie Lambert who printed some 11,500 labels Monday (even up
to 2000 in a batch) …YOU GO, BONNIE!!! Again THANKS to Computer Services Dept.
for sending Ron Hand back last week...Ron did terrific detailed tweaking of
instructions enabling others of us to carry on.
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor." Ecclesiastes 4:9. Three and more…watch out – progress being made! More teamwork coming to get the labels applied.
In preparation to introduce "Lessons from Luke" to a group in Bamenda, I sat in on Grace Baptist Children's Church in Yaounde where the curriculum is used. David Ndam did a great job with the curriculum...a nice refresher since returning to Cameroon.
One CC staff member asked me if I had anything to share. Well...I did have my puppet friend, Grandma Gracie" in my tote bag and a children's book on Proverbs in case an opportunity arose, but insisted that the staff first carry on with their worship time and lesson as planned. They did.
The student leadership particularly appealed to me - a children's worship team and a children's choir led segments of their service, assisted by several children on drums. I hastily wrote down two action songs new to me to share with my neighborhood Bible Club.
Grandma Gracie sang with the children and shared some great truths of Proverbs from Wise Words for Little People by Kenneth Taylor. Thank you Vicki for translating for me.
Grandma and I were very well received, with numerous "high fives" and hand shakes before we left. David emailed me later, "Accept greetings from all the children we miss you so much. We will always be ready to welcome you." I plan to visit again in May with different puppets.
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor." Ecclesiastes 4:9. Three and more…watch out – progress being made! More teamwork coming to get the labels applied.
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Grace Baptist Children's Church
Grace Baptist Children's Church
One CC staff member asked me if I had anything to share. Well...I did have my puppet friend, Grandma Gracie" in my tote bag and a children's book on Proverbs in case an opportunity arose, but insisted that the staff first carry on with their worship time and lesson as planned. They did.
The student leadership particularly appealed to me - a children's worship team and a children's choir led segments of their service, assisted by several children on drums. I hastily wrote down two action songs new to me to share with my neighborhood Bible Club.
Grandma Gracie sang with the children and shared some great truths of Proverbs from Wise Words for Little People by Kenneth Taylor. Thank you Vicki for translating for me.
Grandma and I were very well received, with numerous "high fives" and hand shakes before we left. David emailed me later, "Accept greetings from all the children we miss you so much. We will always be ready to welcome you." I plan to visit again in May with different puppets.
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Trip to Mbingo
Hospital
for Eye Injection
I am very grateful that I was able to get eye injection in North West Cameroon at Mbingo Baptist Hospital, enabling me to finish the school year in Cameroon.
Protocol and procedures are different here. While the approximate three-hour customary eye exam, injection, and follow-up check in the states took three days of appointments in Cameroon (injection treated as a surgical procedure), God provided some divine appointments and ways to "bloom where planted."
The hospital library is organized very simply with general subject labeled shelves and a ledger check-out. I admire the librarian's desire to take the librarian to another level. He asked me for library training, particularly to learn coding (cataloging) medical books. I am working on finding very user friendly software for this. The library has no children's books, so I plan to ask for donations and send up some of own own.
Visiting the children's ward with my African "Grandma Gracie" puppet and stopping along the sidewalk where family members from various from various wards sat to give handshakes and "high fives" brought numerous smiles.
Visiting the children's ward with my African "Grandma Gracie" puppet and stopping along the sidewalk where family members from various from various wards sat to give handshakes and "high fives" brought numerous smiles.
I am excited about meeting
a pediatrician from Samaritan’s Purse who is working on new potential ministry
connections with SIL Cameroon and mother tongue translations.
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CHILDREN'S MINISTRY Seminar in Bamenda
It was my
privilege on April 29 to lead a seminar with students from Faith Bible
College and Calvary Chapel members. I
introduced the awesome Children's
Ministry Resource Bible developed
in conjunction with Child Evangelism Fellowship and shared the qualities of an
effective teacher via the acrostic T-E-A-C-H-E-R from it. Main part of session
was introduction of Lessons from Luke (http://www.scripture-engagement.org/content/lessons-from-luke), a
free downloadable 52-lesson curriculum
for children, based on the Gospel of Luke and developed in the North West region of Cameroon
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