So many people belonging at LAMB School

It is awesome to think of all the people who are a part of LAMB School, and I don't mean just the teachers and students. At a party on Monday, there were at least three people missing - not counting four coming in December. This means that with spouses and children we are more than forty people at LAMB School.
I give thanks for that, and for each one of the man who contribute to the school.

Two more Christmas Cards

Some of the boys, with a lot of help from some of the girls, managed to finish the last two Christmas cards today. Have a look at the cards and send an email to christian.lamb 'at' gmail.com if you want to buy some. Don't forget your mailing address.






Bangla B








English G

In business

I didn't ever think I would be doing this, but the photo you see here is of a post card we hope to produce and sell to raise funds for the teen group at our local church. The cards say 'Shubho Borodin' or 'Merry Christmas 2008'.
The postcard was designed by the girls in the teen group - the boys weren't as efficient, but if they get one ready, it will be added later.
We would like to sell them for US$ 1.50 for the first and US$ 0.25 for each additional copy. This include postage anywhere in the world. There isn't really any good way of paying for this, so if you know how to do that, please help out.
If you don't and still want a Christmas card, send an email with your mailing details to christian.lamb 'at' gmail.com and you might just get a card anyway. (You will have to change the 'at' to an '@'.)

Seize the moment

As I woke up to the second to the last ‘normal’ day of the school year and started with a moan about the fact that all the time I got between a group of visitors who spent four days at LAMB and the painters whom we hope will paint the new building and scrape all walls and ceilings in the old before also painting them was a literal twenty minutes while I was teaching a science class it dawned on me that we are tremendously blessed at LAMB School.
The visitors were an inspiration and they came because they support the work we do through prayer and giving.
The painters haven’t started – it was the ‘mistri’ (the foreman) who came to talk about starting on Saturday and we have room to move around, partly because of good colleagues elsewhere at the project.
At the school we seem on top of the exams that will start on Sunday. There are new teachers coming next year, and two have started even before the ones they replace have left.
So, on this Wednesday morning my gratitude goes to God who is faithful. I might moan again before the day is out, but at least I have captured this moment.

Treats of Bangladesh

Some of the treats available in Bangladesh can be seen if you click on the picture to the right of this article. Have a treat.

A branch that won't break

That is what a friend of Troy's told him today. I don't know the friends name and it doesn't matter since Troy isn't really called Troy either. Troy is no longer a new believer, and it is encouraging to hear him tell about how people come closer to God because of him.
Today's friend asked Troy to pray for him. When Troy asked what for and heard that it was that a childhood sweetheart would divorce her husband so that the friend could marry her he said he couldn't.
Troy has obviously learned a very important lesson about God. While God is faithful and hears our prayers, he won't give us all the things we ask for; especially not when getting them would break His own commandments.
The friend was shocked - he wanted it so - and how could Troy know that that was not going to be within God's plan.
That was the question Troy had for me; but he ventured to tell me his own story of a dream about two broken branches in a tree that he was climbing. The dream which had repeated itself ended with a third that held his weight and arrested his fall.
The first branch was when Troy had tried to save his family by looking for a job in the capital and returned more broke than when he left. The second was when he came back home and after a few weeks was arrested for fourteen hours because some police officer needed to arrest someone and found him handy.
He told of the peace he had felt as he remembered his dream and knew that the next branch would hold.
When, after this his pastor told Troy that God must love him when he let him go through so much trouble, he knew that he wanted to be baptised.
Some time has passed since then and the question is now; how does Troy and the rest of us know when to get of the branch we are sitting on?

The poor at my door - what happened

The truth is I don't know were this is going. As with so much 'good' we just don't know whether it will bring anything GOOD. I just found out that Thomas never went back to work at the brick kiln. I hope he and his family still eat, and that he has found someone to work for who will treat him well.
The harvest season has begun in our area and there should be work for all so that none will have to go hungry.

Daily Poverty Busters

I have added a link to a new blog with ideas for how to make a difference for the poor.
The blog is a result of the tension between realities and the standards of Isaiah 58. It is an attempt at turning thoughts of despair and frustration into something anybody can do.
It is not an intellectual site and all the ideas must be measured and tried against common sense and the reality in which you live. They must be tested against the greatest commandment to love the Lord your God and your neighbour as yourself.