Friends & Family,

Sorry for the hiatus, but the Friesen Fortnightly blog is repaired and back up.

The Brits love to name things and not just the cathedral, but a section of the roof and of course each glass stained window.  They rubbed off on me, so, when I was buying houses, I looked forward to naming it.  The results were “Aslan’s How” and “The Inklings House.”  My past cars have been named.  The Blue Streak got me to college, The White Whale to seminary and the “Narnia-mobile” to Aslan’s How. Recently, Africa New Life gave the students of Multnomah the honor of naming the Kigali library that they had kollected, kataloged and konveyed to Rwanda.  Students submitted 100 names. Some were better than others.  The “Get Behind Me Satan Library” did not make the cut. The Kigali kommittee narrowed the names and the top three were debated.  Compromises sounded like a kommittee kreation — the The Africa Rwanda Light of Hope Multnomah Library or TARLOHML for short.  Finally a winner emerged which was a simple combination of the efforts of two colleges: Multnomah and REST (Rwanda Evangelical School of Theology).  The new library will be named the “Multnomah REST Library”.  In June the Kigali Konvey team joined the dedication of the library and college.  We stood on a piece of land that was just uneven dirt, but will soon have a building, 20,000 books for future African leaders and best of all a name – Multnomah REST Library.

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