Our newly elected student leaders are called ministers. The program names follow closely after those found in Ugandan government for the most part, so we have ministers of sports and energy as well as Prime Minister, a humble quiet boy who is new to the school and lovely to get to know (seen in CSB green and white uniform.)

Monday and Tuesday of the past week were dedicated to this great group of kids. They spent hours crafting their new student leader constitution and revising all of their mission statements. They met with their staff points of contact to share ideas and begin working partnerships. They were prayed over by the whole staff. And they played an amazing number of team building games. Team building was my responsibility and BOY oh BOY did I have a great time. Here are some of our twice a day times of games; working to flip a student head over heels in a chair without dropping him, playing trust games of falling and learning to get up and down as a group. There was so much laughter, so many happy faces and bodies. What a joy to get to enjoy these kids outside of the pressure of enforcing rules.

We have high hopes for these students whose government is modeled after what is found in most Ugandan schools. Our hopes are to match our system to common Ugandan school systems here while still including a transformative difference of the applications of faith. So far, so good, but it needs lots of prayer.