After hearing about a teacher forbidding her students use our library, Kia and I went to the school this morning to speak with the director or subdirector about who we are and our goals. When we got there, the guard at the gate let us in and told us where the office is. Entering the office, we spoke with the secretary who smiled and showed us in to the subdirector´s office. (I need to pause for a second and say that it isn´t always easy to get into the director´s offices. They are very guarded and their time is important. Often parents are not even allowed to enter in to the school while the kids are there.)
In the office, the subdirector said, “So, you´re the ones with the library.”
“Yes, ma´am,” we said, and then we proceeded to tell here what we are about.
“I know about the library,” she said, “and I think it´s a great thing.” She was surprised to hear a teacher was forbidding her students to come to the library and said she would talk with all the teachers to be sure to remind their students to return the books they have checked out. “In fact,” she continued, “I´ve read one of your Chronicles of Narnia books. It was really good. A person who works for me checked it out and let me read it.”
Happy with the meeting and her support, we went over to the high school (the one with 5000 boys in it). Again the guard let us in and we went right into the director´s office. He was pleased with what he heard and said, “Can you help us with our library here at the school, because it really stinks. Also can you get us about 5000 of the flyers you have. We want to give them to our students.”
“We can, sir,” we said, “But frankly that´s a bit scary. You see, our library is pretty small and we already have about 200 kids signed in.”
It´s in God´s hands. The flyers are being printed.
This school has historically been the school for the leaders of the community. It is more than 150 years old and has a long history of success. Unfortunately, the years of terrorism (from about 1980 – 2000) damaged that reputation. Perhaps the library will help get the leaders back… I know we´ve some hints of great leadership already among the kids that come to the library.
To God be the glory!!!!!!!!!