Well the new President has been announced !! At 12:30 last night I was woken by the noise of people going up and down the road singing and rejoicing at the victory of a new President. Horns sounded, whistles blew, people shouted. President Sata will be inaugurated this afternoon at around 2pm - how is that for fast in a country where everything else seems to go so slow!!
The chairman of the Samfya board arrived yesterday and I have had fruitful discussions with him. Wathabu has carefully guided the board in the last number of years and this year has seen the board trimmed from 15 to 9 members. This refocusing will continue to be a great blessing as the members now have a much more defined responsibility and purpose for their involvement. Sadly by August next year Wathabu will stand down from the board, however he will still have a significant input into the work here. His intention is to go to a Baptist training school in Tanzania that offers courses in both theology and rural development. He is wanting to focus in the development area so that he can train the Bible School teachers to better train students who come with little education from these rural places.
Wathabu is a strategic thinker about the work of the Bible School. He will on the completion of his training come and teach at the school and spearhead the ongoing training of graduates and their church leaders in the village churches. So while Wathabu will be stepping down, he will still have significant input even during his training and will become resident in Samfya in years to come.
Our curriculum meeting went well and will continue this afternoon, and the Finance meetings continue to progress. We look forward to the potential next year of having a team member that will come and do an audit of the accounts with the new administrator Mt Humphrey Mugula...
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