Tuesday, December 15, 2009

But wait there's more

Just after finishing the blog last night we realised that we had overlooked two significant events of the last week. Firstly, on Thursday the boys had a sleepover at the new church. Two Dutch volunteers (Ester and Margret) and Rebecca from Canada have organised a series of activities for groups of children, one of which was a sleepover in the containers by the church. It was fabulous, the boys had a good night and so did we. I think we were in bed by 9pm rather than the usual 11pm, so that we can water the boys before retiring, and we slept until 8am. We have tried to suggest that this should happen every Thursday but the girls were not keen. These three have really been good value and helped out in lots of ways. We have sort of been surrogate parents at times but we have enjoyed getting to know them. They return home next week just before Christmas and their activities this week will help us to retain our peace (rather than pieces).
The other item we should mention is that our stove caught fire again yesterday for the second time. Brad took it to Kampala today to the shop we bought it from and they have refunded the money so Marilyn & I will try to buy another one tomorrow when we have our day out in Kampala. It will be my first excursion driving to Kampala so any prayers for safe travel would be appreciated.
Today we had another morning of sorting through shoeboxes for another organisation which was fun. We had to find 200 in about 2hrs so it was flat-tack but with 6 of us working it got done.
Of course this afternoon we got Raghma down for her afternoon feed, can't have a blog without mentioning her now can we!!
This morning we prayed that we might hear from Chris especially as we hadn't heard from him for a long time, and that we might hear again from Pete. We have been reminded that we should be careful with what we pray for as we got a skype from Chris this morning and this evening an email from Pete. Thank you Lord.
Well, that's enough of a ramble for now
God Bless

1 comment:

  1. Loved the photographs of Raghma. Hope the business of life slows down this week with no shoeboxes to sort. Great that you from both Chris and Pete. Love Heugh and Jen

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