I have a bit more time so thought I would try to flesh out what is being done here.
As mentioned earlier, there are 106 children here from only a few days old to solo mums of 13-16yrs. You cannot sit down anywhere without anything from 1-4 children climbing all over you and wanting cuddles. When standing, they want to be picked up so there is really very little escape. As you can imagine, we are LOVING it. The main project at the moment is the completion of a medical centre which can serve not only the children's home but also people from surrounding villages. This is near to completion. We visited the school on friday and had a brief glance in all classrooms, there may be some opportunities to help out there. We are in the family unit which, although it is not quite finished yet, is very comfortable. So far we have made up a "wish list" of things for the unit, somewhich the home will provide but others we will buy ourselves. The five boys, Matthew, Owen, Timothy, Joshua, and Ezra are all very keen to move in but we feel we need to wait a bit longer to have more in place for them. In the meantime they visit regularly each day which is nice and helps us to get to know them better.
It is difficult to put into words how wonderful the life here is, these children are indeed the lucky ones with so much love given to them. We are full of admiration for the ministry of Piet & Pita and the work they do in our Lord's name, they are truly remarkable and we look forward to working alongside them for some time to come.
Marilyn has a cell phone +256783968476 is the number (we think) so we would love to receive any messages or texts. I hope to get one soon too.
Thank you to those who are supporting us in prayer, I hope to be able to include some photos in the next blog (just got to get some), hope this isn't too boring. C ya Warwick
Sunday, June 14, 2009
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Hi to Marilyn and Warwick. Great to hear that you arrived safely and that everything is working out so well so quickly..All very exciting. Jen and I were thinking of you while we were heading home from church and pondering how life will be without you both around for ???...No doubt MOTE and J will be chomping at the bit to be moving in over the next week or so. Re the blog being boring, nothing to be further from the true LOL Heugh and Jen
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ReplyDeleteGlad to hear you arrived ok - sounds like you are settling in quickly. Currently 3 degrees here, BRRR!
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