It's gone, but the school dream lives on

You may have seen the video of John Wiens with the original building he hoped to turn into the trade school building in the village. It was not to be, two years ago the church building was further renovated to accommodate the school and the three classrooms the Ukrainian government required for an official school. There was a lot of red tape involved in being an official school, that spring and summer everyone was forced to get things done quickly to start the school that fall, and the church was seen as an immediate solution. It actually worked out well for the school, although the ten or twelve members of the church had to rearrange things every Sunday for services. This year we hope to leave them their own room for services!

Sadly this spring there has been a fire bug on the loose in the village, you may have read about the house that burned back in March in my Moo-oosings blog, there was a second empty abandoned house that burned and then while we in Egypt the old preschool that John once hoped to turn into a school burned also. The roof had fallen in last year, so as Garry said they really knew it was not to be, but here is a photo of what is left of the building.

Luckily it did not spread to the building behind it which were the town works building and are rented out for storage, because we have grain and fertilizer stored in some of the lock boxes.