Navajo Nuggets October 13

October 13, 2013

Greetings from Sun Valley,

As our teaching staff was meandering out of our SMART BOARD training class in a Holbrook public school, a 3^rd grade girl on her way to lunch abruptly stopped; her eyes and smile widened as she ran into the arms of her former dorm mom and her last year’s teacher. She went from one to the other and back again, just hugging them and soaking up the love. That’s what we do here.  Love them to Jesus.  Some of the children are like frightened puppies that need to be rescued. They growl and bite, and are afraid to be touched, but what they really want and need is love (sometimes tough love).

One of our troubled students has left and gone back to live with his family. Please pray that Roger’s talks with him about Jesus will find a foothold in his heart.

Sickness has swept through the campus. Many adults and children suffered with bad colds. It is a good thing that this is Fall Break, so they have a chance to recover.

This will be a busy week.  We have some in-service meetings for two days and then the ACSI Conference in Flagstaff on Thursday and Friday.  There just seems to be so much to do!  At least one thing we don’t have to do is move. We have decided to stay in the dorm apartment. If we get any more girls, I’ll become a co-dorm parent as well as being a teacher.

I really enjoyed chatting with some of the Work and Witness team from Russell Springs, Kentucky, this week. It turns out that one of them knew the dad of a neighbor we had in Waldorf. Small world.

Roger thinks that I’m probably drowning you in “Nuggets,” so I might be writing them less frequently.  That is some kind of weird mixed metaphor. Can you drown in nuggets?

Love,

The Everetts

2 Thessalonians 1:11-12 To this end also we pray for you always, that our God will count you worthy of your calling, and fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith with power, so that the name of our Lord Jesus will be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.