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Nikki Aldum

Africain Mercy - Benin, West Africa

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Wednesday 17 June 2009
God's Faithfulness Proven once again!
Many of you are aware that the greatest challenge of the last year has been the lack of staff in the Academy and how at many times through out the year I have had to ask my staff to take on more than reasonable work loads to try and attempt to fill the gaps. This has meant at many times we end up running on crisis control mode juggling all the plates, hoping that none would fall.

Yesterday I had the final reply from the a teacher who will be joining our team in August and fill the final position! So the Academy will be start with all 12 bed spaces (number of position allocated to our department) filled! This means that we start the year in a very different place to where we did last year with only 7 bed spaces filled!

I am so thankful to all of you who have prayed throughout this year and once again God has proven Himself faithful as he has provided the perfect team. I have an overwhelming sense that God has hand picked this team and he is going to do mighty things through us as we serve the families on board!

Please continue to prayer for the team of teachers, many who are returning but also for the 5 new staff members who are preparing to come and are busy packing up their lives at home.

Cindy Wright

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