Cory's Own Words.

I'm the talker as most of you know and I write most of our updates. But last week I saw an E-mail written by Cory describing what he does and thought I'd share it. Today in clinic we saw a 9 month old little girl who weighted just over 12 pounds.

She did poke at my watch and grabbed at the prescription but it was obvious that already in the lower level of malnutrition her life's potential is in danger. We started her in a feeding program, gave her mom a Moringa tree, 6 Moringa seeds and an information sheet. This child is why Cory's work is so important. Gardening classes are set to start in October.

I get to do agriculture related work at least half of the

time, would like to do more but some of the maintenance work

(school, church, clinic and campus housing)doesn't have

local skilled people do do it. Also work teams, visitors and

conferences take some time. I visited a church

member's land a few miles away yesterday, he has a few acres

in the flood plain but there are some avocado trees in the

area and the land seems pretty good. He wants to grow higher

value crops than the sugar cane and corn he is mainly

growing, 9 kids in school so tuition is a struggle. He

really likes gardening, also grows cacao, yam and banana. I

told him I could help with getting seeds and plants to make

a nursery and he wanted to do that. I hope to help more

people start nurseries here since there are very few sources

of good plants. I also plan to have regular gardening

classes. The real progress will come as more people study

the Bible and follow its teaching.. The people here are open

to having Bible teaching included with things like gardening

classes and I do that. Still lots of Voodoo, thievery,

fatalism, and the government isn't doing any extension work

in this area so lack of understanding about soil fertility,

disease, etc. No shortage of topics to teach on. Cory A child next to his 15 month old Moringa Tree. Which now has seed pods.