Update

SATURDAY, 5TH JULY, 2008

This week has also been very busy and I was SO busy today that I did not in fact managed to write anything, but went to bed completely forgetful of even trying to do so. Most of the week we have been engaged in last minute 'Getting Ready' for our friends from Tyndale Christian School in Southern Australia. They all finally arrived yesterday about 6p.m. and are now all installed in the new Guest House (28 of them). We are very happy with the final finish of this building, and it also gave rise to a lot of praise from our guests, although in fact it is a very simple and rather spartan facility. Tyndale will be with us for 13 days as from now, and we look forward to having good fellowship with them. They have come prepared to do a lot of interior and exterior decorating, AND perhaps laying a new sewer line from the Nursery School to the Municipal sewer line across the road! They will also be interacting with the children of course both in and out of school. This is now the THIRD visit over a period of six years, and we feel it has been a very good and healthy link. The Headmaster of the School, Mike Potter, is suggesting we might visit THEM !!! Wow, that would indeed be an experience for us old foggies.

Our son Daryl who was scheduled to leave us at the end of June, will be staying on at least for the time being. He has continued to be a very practical help to us all, and even in the final concensus he has been of tremendous help in getting the latest Building up and in shape. He has a flair for these things. He will continue on as the one responsible for the ongoing state of repair and maintenance for all our many buildings old and new. He will work in with the Maintenance Department, and will also be a general help on the Children's Homes side as Carol continues her teaching in the School. This at least assures the family stays together and intact without one or the other taking off in another director. A great deal of prayer is still needed for them - and for ourselves as we seek to walk along with them in the Love of the Lord.

Our Server has been having problems, and we have only had intermittent access to E-mail and the net over the last fortnight. This has forced us to look for alternatives, and I will shortly be advising you of a NEW e-mail ADDRESS. Additionaly we have now also obtained a gadget that enables us to have unlimited access to the Web at faster speeds that we have hitherto been able to obtain.

Manu spent some few days with us - he just left today (Sunday) back to his Internship some 800 kilometres away. He had lost a little weight and looked good. He was in fact in much better case than for some time, and spent all the time with us, very happy and somehow more at peace than we have known him for some time. We are believing that the LORD is in fact taking him in hand, and the three months (finishing in October) might well be part of the plan to give him time and space to reform and return to the Lord. Go on praying for him..

All for now as I rush off to the Sunday service. God Bless you and be close to you all

John and Esther