It has been a while since I last wrote but I am in Entebbe for the day after dropping friends at the airport so I am once again making the most of the amazingly fast internet and trying not to be too jealous of the peeps who live in places where they don`t have to struggle for hours with rubbish signals!
Last month (November) I had the Barrett`s (John and Liz) who I stay with in England to visit. Half way through the month 3 other guys from Harvest church joined them: Art, Ben and John number 2.
They all worked amazingly hard along with members of the New Hope Construction team. Dear Liz was slaving away at the sewing machine for hours making curtains for my new bedroom and sofa covers. The lads were constructing my kitchen which included concrete worktops. They also managed to tile the bathroom which, according to my compound worker James now looks like "heaven".
They enjoyed an evening with David family who fed them posho and beans (supplemented with a chocolate cake made by a very grateful Auntie Kate!)
Life also continued with my class and dear children at home including Mary, Jonnie and not so lickle Thomas Dendy (pictured below). They have been having a whale of a time in the paddling pool which Becca brought out when she returned to Kiwoko for a two week visit.....we can`t wait until she comes back next September for a year :)
School finished last Tuesday and we had a lovely party with the parents who gave testimonies of how their children had progressed since joining the class; this was a great encouragement to all of us staff!
We will be partying again this week on Wednesday with all our community children and families. Thanks to the team from Harvest church we have some lovely christmas gift bags to hand out to each of the children....there are going to be some smiley faces to photograph!
Please keep Carol (right) in your prayers this week as she is hopefully going to have surgery this week as there is a surgeon and an anaesthetist here from the UK. She needs a gastrostomy (feeding tube) fitted.
And please also pray for precious Mary (left) who I have been fostering part time......it looks like she may now not come to me full time as her Uncle may now be able to have her back sooner than expected. Please pray that she knows that she is loved and protected wherever she goes and that those involved in making decisions about her future will have wisdom and discernment.
I will leave you with a few pics of how the house is now looking and a classic shot of our dear Kakande.
Hopefully I`ll get a chance (and signal) to write again before Christmas but in the mean time I hope you all enjoy the fun and preparations.......
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