End of year for our girls

In Moldova the first 4 years of school life from age 7-11 see the students remain in the same class with the same teacher. Only after this year do they separate into different classes.

Thus graduation this year was quite an emotional time for both Rachael, her class, her teacher (Miss Natalia to the right of the picture ) and us as a family since all the students would be no longer together.

Rachael is holding a "graduation" certificate that recorded her results for the year - she had an average of 9.36 ( out of 10 ) for all the subjects and was thrilled to have come first in the class.

The teacher then had the class go through various resumes of what they had learned in the last 4 years.

Of course it was the last day of school for both our daugthers and here they are posing in our garden before going to school.

It's been lovely weather over the last days and our cherries have come out and our strawberries.There's also been a healthy amount of rain during May so we might get a decent potato harvest.

In our church we pray for rain and rejoice, praising God when it comes - a little different one imagines from the UK.

Abigail also had her end of year pageant. Their teacher had them dress up in traditional Moldovan outfits and sing Moldovan songs and poems.

Do pray for their teacher who has been coming to the church quite regularly recently

Mari also invited Rachael's graduating class over to Karis for a free pizza.

They are the group in the background behind Larisa and family

Always in need of your prayers

Pastor Mark