During the rainy season of last July and August, we tried to improve our school buildings. We built
three cement classrooms and one staff dormitory . Many students who used to study with us would rather come to the new school. These students formerly took their studies in Chinese but the government changed the school to teach in Burmese instead of Chinese.
Because of this language difficulty the students choose to come to the new school even though it meant they had to
walk 16 kilometers round-trip every day . When the school started on Sept 6, 270 children walked the 16 kilometers to school. 150 of these were less than 10 years old. Every morning, students started to walk around 6:00 in the morning and arrived at school around 7:45. After five and one half hours at school, they walked home together. Then they had to help their family with the field work or other housework. They had only a little time to do their homework each night. During class, they would stand up in order to keep themselves awake. The teachers were very touched by their persistence.
After the new school has been running for eight week, they received orders from the government that all students from the older school
had to go back to the government sponsored school . And the school, in return, would allow classes to be taught in Chinese from 1:00 to4:00 in the afternoon.
School started again on March 7 th with
850 students with 28 teachers.
•In order to serve the rising number of students, we have to recruit and train more teachers. Please pray for love, wisdom and endurance. We also plan to change the old bamboo walled classrooms to cement buildings. Please pray.
Since last October, the government has not been very stable. There have been many unexpected policy changes.
•Please pray for us to have a peaceful environment and fruitful ministry so that more Wa will turn and believe in Jesus.
•Main prayer item is related to the government leadership change a number of weeks ago. People are being asked (ordered) to hand over their new vehicles to the government by March 31st. The team has 3 vehicles. They would be greatly inconvenienced if they no longer have these vehicles. Please PRAY that some unusual miracle would take place, thus allowing the school to keep their vehicles and not lose them to the government. 
