Jan 1st transplanted tomatoes. Erected swing for the children. Sermon unintelligible followed by a feast of meat. Painting Concorde kit and starting Boeing 707. Picnic and fishing at Farin Ruwa.
2nd Tree evangelists came to replenish their book. They had sod N280 with commission paid of N32. Model aeroplane making. Mary Titus did some washing for us.No potatoes in the market.
3rd Family to Jos. Picked up History of Old Testament part two from the printers. Picnic at Got and Magog. Mary did more washing back at daft.
4th Boeing &)& still under construction. Mary washed, ironed and showed us how to use a kerosene iron.
5th Boeing finished. Work on TEE tapes for teachers. Staked tomatoes. Reading Telegraphs and Sunday Times from September, our slow surface mail or gifts from expatriates here.
6th Women's fellowship here. Preparing TEE teachers tapes.
7th Three times had to chase pastor's cows off our tomatoes. Morning service at Gindiri legalistic and Christless. Lunch and tea with Gulas who are encouraging me to translate Calvinistic booklets.
8th Preparing TEE tapes. and calendar.
9th In Jos duplicating TEE calendar at Boers.
10th Work on History of Old Testament. Enjoying Al Martin tapes sent by his church. Women's Fellowship met until late and kept us awake,
11th Chasing cows from garden. Did critique of Common Hausa Bible.
12th Built Lego for boys. Rachel grumpy.
13th Sermon preparation for Sunday. new labourer employed. Evangelist John reported sales one N126 books. Lego with boys.
14th Preached to about 350. 150 communicants and I presided. Took family to paddle at Farin Ruwa.
15th Mwari TEE teachers via Boi. Supplied Boi bookshop with N200 of books.
16th To Jos for TEE subcommittee. They want to expand and we are not ready. I also do not want two more districts to supervise. Heather Peters on medical visit.
17th Labourer did not come with water. Took boys to school happily. Family staying at COCIN HQ.
18th TEE Association AGM.
19th Buying books for resale. Talked to publisher about need for TEE reprints. Visited boys who are happy boarding.
20th To stay at Mango.
21st Poor sermon in the morning so skipped evening service. Took Rachel on a walk to see the pigs.
22nd Jim Pleudeman opened TEE workshop. Chat with our old Hausa school colleague, Ruth Veltkamp of CRC.
23rd Preparation for writing and describing students and objectives.
24th Jim taught in the morning then Ruth taught sequencing. Dick and I worked on teaching visiting.
25th Different groups of us critiqued one another's work.
26th Jim made us rewrite some then start a chapter on customs.
27th Writing pronounced good.
28th Pleudemann preaches, a big increment. Dele came thither the managers of his newly opened bookshop.
29th Critiquing oneanother's work.
30th Wrote chapter on modest dress.
31st Jim critiques the lessons and we had them tested. SIM here for a conference. Ray Ortlund of Pasadena preached.Seems Arminian and a concordance preacher.
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