Live from Vanuatu

Live from Vanuatu :)
I have a few moments break from a very busy schedule. I've been granted an extension of three weeks to stay in Vanuatu and continue supporting the base, primarily through building and encouraging the students in Transformational Leadership Seminar. I've been using my rusty french with some of the students from New Caledonia. We finished our rugby tournament and even though our team did not place it was an excellent time of bonding and building relationships. I continue my role as team medic extending to the rest of the base also (band aids, slivers, etc). We met a couple times with rugby union (myself,Waqa my director, Sai a well known ref and trainer from Fiji and Mana, a well known Fiji 7s player) and these meetings led to more doors being open to support the sport of rugby in the entire nation. Sai will be returning in two weeks time to train the referees here on the island and uplift the level of professionalism. I'm organizing a small scale rugby clinic for the girls in the village as they have told me that they used to have a girls team but after their coach was put into jail they gave up on the sport. A house here in the village burnt down last night. Apparently the grandparents and two grandaughters were sleeping when a candle caught fire on some clothes. Because their 'huts' are made of wood and tin roof they easily burn. By the time our boys from the base made it with a hose the house was burnt to the ground and the side kitchen was also gone. They boys managed to save the last outbuilding but the family was left with nothing. The sad part is many neighbors came outside to watch but the YWAM boys were the only ones offering their help and support. There is still work to do in extending God's love to the nation of Vanuatu!  Thank you for your prayers and support as I continue to be flexible to where God would have me. I right now have a head cold but believe by the time this email reaches you the prayers will have healed me !
Tank yu tomas  (thank you in Bislama) Alissa