Issue #14
March 15, 1999

Dear Friends and Family,
I hear that many of you had snow this weekend. I miss having snow, but at least we have still been having rain quite often. It is usually a thunderstorm at night so that makes sleeping nice.

It has been a fast full week. I think I had a meeting after school every day this week. We are working on re-accreditation right now. I think the visit will be early next year. We had meeting a for that Monday. I am on a committee for building the new Fine Arts building. I had a meeting for that on Tuesday. If any of you have any ideas or input on things that should be included in a Music and Arts building, please let me know. We are supposed to have the plans for the building drawn up soon. Wednesday was a parent conference. Thursday was band practice. (I have started playing with the middle/high school band.) Friday night was a school activity called Mission Impossible. Saturday was Outreach.

Our injury/sickness trend hit again this weekend. Hopefully this weekend will be then end of it. On Friday morning, Grace Lee (4th Grader) broke her ankle in PE. On Friday afternoon, Jamie Tsovold (middle school) had an appendectomy in Ferke. Friday night, Ruben Eagleton (middle school) fell during Mission Impossible and had to get eight stitches in his knee. On Saturday, Nate Krueger (high school) hurt his ankle in Lacrosse and might have to have an x-ray tomorrow. Please remember all of these kids in prayer. Jamie's sister went with him to Ferke to have the surgery because his parents are in Canada right now. I don't think they were able to contact Grace's parents.

Friday night's activity, Mission Impossible, is the nurses' nightmare night. The students and staff are divided up into teams. They teams have to find clues to find certain objects. The campus is completely blacked out and only the staff have flashlights. The kids love it. The only injury was Ruben's knee. One of the clues was "At the house of Levi....." It was after my puppy. I thought it was funny.

Last night was Outreach. It is the first outreach we have had a night in a long time. We went to a village about 20 minutes away. There were probably about 50 kids that went. We were a little late getting started because the set up crew got stopped at the police stop with the equipment. They left long before we did but got there right before we did. The kids sang their songs and a video was shown while the Evangelism Explosion teams went out and witnessed to people. There were a bunch of people there to watch the video. We know of at least 3 people who became Christians. The kids were treated to ice cream on the way home as a surprise. They were very happy.

Mike Cousineau is doing much better. He is still in pain but is beginning to heal. He has been back to work some this week. He left this morning with Deleen and Bill Grudda to go to Abidjan. Deleen is going to the States for a few weeks to take her counseling test. Bill had to drive since Mike is unable to. Pray for Deleen as she takes the test and Mike and the girls as they are here. We only have nine more days of school until Spring Break. Everyone is looking forward to it and is ready for a break.

Hope you all have a great week!
Traci