CBIT meetings

Yesterday I met with Morris Ogenga, the CBIT chairman and Vincent Ojanjo, the CBIT Administrator. The school is doing well with 63 students and 3 teachers and they ended the school year breaking even with the budget. They feel that they must move to a new campus but that will take at least a year. They want to add another classroom and a library/administrative space/computer room to the existing building. They have a rented five bedroom house in which all 64 students live in closely spaced bunkbeds. In spite of all of this, they have more applicants than they have space plus they have expectant attitudes about the future of CBIT.

Today I met with Morris, Vincent and Boaz Mung'ao, the CBIT dean. I spent about two hours with Boaz alone. He is even more expectant than Morris and Vincent and is taking steps for affiliation with an African University in order to move to a degree program in addition to the current diploma program.

They have this visional attitude in spite of their terrible facilities. They have three classrooms with temporary walls of bambo to form a couple of tiny offices and a tiny conference room. They have computers and copiers that for the most part don't work as they are very old and broken. We sent them more than 15 boxes of theological books which they no place to store or display. They are so crowded that they sometimes meet outside under a big tree.

I have much more to tell you and will have many pictures when we get home. Meanwhile, my copy of Outlook is out of service so I can neither send nor receive Email until I get home.

Would one of you send a message to John Couch that we will need the 501(3)c ASAP in order to forward funds to CBIT. His address is john.couch@bgllp.com. After you do that, send me a comment on this blog so I know that someone did it. Send us any other comments which we do appreciate and look forward to.

Leon