Second Week in Singapore

Well, I have just finished my second week in Singapore and it feels like I have been here a month!!  I think with getting used to my classes and the heat and the bus and train rides, I was just exhausted by the time Friday night rolled around.  We have had a lot of basketball games this well also, so I tried to attend as many as possible so that I could learn my students' names and support them at the same time. (I have 140 high school students and some of them have very hard names to pronounce!)  Basketball just ended for both teams, so I hope for a little break. We leave at 6:25 in the morning and get home around 7 or 8.  Hopefully this week, it will be a little sooner. 

Some highlights of this week were:  
 All of us can now get to and from school by ourselves.

Spiritual Emphasis Week was really a neat time with many making decisions.  Many who are just learning about who Jesus is are very interested in knowing more.  I have many in my classes who did not grow up in a Christian home and are not believers. 

Our girls won their championship basketball game to make them league champions for the 2nd year in a row.  The boys played for 3rd but lost.  The pace of the game here is very fast and very rough.  The guys did an amazing job, but just couldn't pull it off. 

Micah has made a lot of new friends.  (I know you are all shocked!)  He has gotten around a little by himself and if he gets desperate there is always a taxi!!

Went to Lau Pa Sat with Don Cole.  It was very fun.  I will try to post some pictures of our time there.

Prayer requests:
1)Pray that we will be a light to our students who do not know Christ.
2)Pray that God will give us opportunity to meet and get to know our neighbors.  They are devout Chinese Muslims and even though we cannot witness to them, pray that they can see Christ in us.
3)All of us have various trips we are going on, so please pray for God's work to be done in the organizing and work that we will do.

Micah- going to India to do some sports camps and ministry work
Marta- Cambodia to an orphanage to build a wall to keep chickens in and kidnappers out.  (They have a problem with kidnappers taking the girls and selling them into prostitution.)
Chris- going to Indonesia with the middle school students
Hayden- going to Mexico at Spring Break with a group from Corban 

We love you and covet your prayers for our family!!

I'll try to post some new pictures soon!
Marta