Weimar Bulletin – Vol 1, No 1

Tickets

While an 8th Grader at John Nevins Andrews Elementary School in Takoma Park, Maryland our class performed a play called Dear Tish which chronicled letters home from a Civil War soldier.  Our Social Studies Teacher, Lydia Chiomente, put a lot of work into this play and really made it a production.  As I recall there were 2-3 performances of the play and you had to have tickets to get in – a big deal for 8th graders.  At the end of the year Mrs. Chiomente let me keep a copy of the play.  I don’t know how many copies of the play there may be out there still, but I decided to scan my copy and share it – at least for memory sake.  As far as I know, Mrs. Chiomente wrote this play herself.  If you remember anything more about this, please comment.

Dear Tish Sript

Need

While the per capita GDP for the Marshall Islands is only $2300/year it is mostly made up from the US government and has little impact on the remote islands such as Namu. We have operated a 2 teacher school there in the past but it has been difficult to recruit student missionaries and the islanders have struggled to pay the $10-15/month tuition rates.

Additional Mission Opportunities

Global Missions Pioneers to turn Namu into a training center for reaching the other atolls.
Medical Evangelism
80 hp Marine Diesel Engine for inter-island travel

Draft Goals and Operating Costs for Namu SDA School

Goals:

1. To help train next generation leaders by helping the young students learn to read and comprehend clearly the written Word of God, write clearly, and have skills needed to organize and manage talents and resources for local church growth.
2. To help students build healthy relationship with Christ, with their own family members and be an exemplary citizens of their country.
3. To prepare and train church members to be missionaries to their own people living in surrounding islands.
4. To teach healthy living and lifestyles by strengthening healthy habits. This can be done by i.e. training and providing resources to grow vegetables locally, teaching NEWSTART with the use of herbal, water, and charcoal treatments, etc.
5. To be involved proactively with community needs, challenges, and concerns so that the school will reflect Christ’s love, compassion, care, and grace.
6. To allow youth and young adults from North America hands-on experience with mission work, and allow the church members in North America a healthy way to assist the youth and the islanders through prayers and provision of resources while they themselves grow spiritually as well.

Annual Operating Costs:

1.       Teachers’ Stipend: $ 250/month x 10 months x 4 Teachers            $ 10,000.00

Note: Each teacher will teach two/three grades

2.       Textbooks and Classroom teaching resources                                     $   2,000.00

Note: Textbooks can be later applied in grants

3.       Furnishing Teachers’ Living Quarter                                                         $      800.00

Note: e.g. gas stove, gas tank, cooking utensils

4.       Maintenance Supplies                                                                                   $   2,000.00

Note: Church members will provide free labor service

5.       First Aid/Sports Equipment/Gen. Expenditure                                   $     200.00

Total Annual Expenses                 $15,000.00

And a little philosophy…

This service started in 1955 with a typo by Sears & Roebuck and has continued ever since.  Last year 1000 volunteers answered almost 100,000 phone calls and 10,000 e-mails.  Their web site received over 11 million visits.  For more information on the background of this service visit this page on wired.com.

If you want to learn more about how Santa himself has gone high tech check out this article on HowStuffWorks.com.  You may be surprised at his modern innovations!

How to make a cycling expedition film if you are both the cameraman and the presenter from Rob Lilwall on Vimeo.

UPDATE:  The Jeep is running well!  Did my first longer drive it in today to Spokane.  It pulled up the hills much stronger than before.  Previously it had to repeatedly downshift on the long hills coming out of the valley, but today it went right up without a problem!

• October 2008