Getting to Know Different Groups

Sue writes:

These first few weeks of a new college year, besides preparing our lectures, we lecturers spend time getting to know small groups of students. There are ten men in our cell group, which meets weekly. This group will go out for ministry at a village church next week-end. In this week's meeting the students will be deciding what each person should prepare for the Saturday and Sunday outreach.

Also, Jeff and I are each getting to know three fifth-year students so we can mentor them in the process of writing their theses. They will work all year on this 10,000-word paper on a theological topic they consider important to their local church or denomination. Since this is our fourth year here, we already have some acquaintance with these scholars. That helps us get down to work with a little more understanding of their capabilities. We pray these papers really will bring biblical insight which will help the churches of Melanesian become even more relevant to their communities.
The cows in the background here are a group I like to watch in my spare time. They are pastured just over our back fence from time to time.

The group of flowers shown is blooming in our yard now. They remind me of a similar flower that grew in California. Those were all pink and called something like naked ladies. They had a stem about three feet long and reddish pink, without any leaves on it. Thus their name. Instead of all pink, these are white with a red stripe. I wanted to look the flower up on the internet, but our blocker of objectionable sites didn't think that was a good idea.