LITTLE MAIDS ALL IN A ROW?

THIS WEEK, I am starting off with a photo of Esther.s Quilting Club members showing off one of their latest adventures.    The are all very diverse and lovely sisters, and really enjoy doing what they do.....more drinking coffee and chatting than Quilting I think - and this one rather hurts my eyes and jumbles my mind.
Colourful but kind of offensive at the same time!!      They DO achieve good work as well though, and the main thing is the good fellowship and togetherness that has been achieved in just coming together and taking part, and being ONE.   In the end, because of this, everything becomes beautiful!!

Quite an international group as well - Kenya, Goan, American, South African, !!  Esther is forth from the left by the way.... and the photo taken from in front of Green Cottage, looking towards the School under the branches of our Big tree.     The smaller photo is just an extra shot of our 'ladies' admiring their work, and recalling how it all came to be put together.   All the work takes place in our sitting room - which means - Yes I am pushed out onto the veranda to continue my literary adventures.     They do bring me tea though!


NEXT Esther and me at the Eldoret International Airport with baby Abigail, to say farewell to our son Steven, who was flying to Nairobi to connect with his KLM flight to the U.K.   He had been with us since Monday, after attending Mugure's Wedding.    We had a great time, just being with him, with time to chat and reminisce,     We truly enjoyed ourselves.    However, we also missed having Anji, Steve's wife, and our grandchildren with us as well.

We felt somehow as if we were on another planet, with all our kids scattered on in different solar systems!!

The Airport is about 18 kilometres from us and 9,000ft above sea level.   It is nearly always rather cool, and windy.    Not very comfortable.    He had a safe trip to Nairobi, and on to U.K.  Maybe next time he will bring all his family with him.

Michael and Elisabeth also need to make a visit.    But probably not in the near future.    Next visitors will be for Christmas - Tammy and Liz from Adelaide , South Australia,  and Hendrika and Terry    from the U.S.

Secondary School closed down for Christmas  this week, on the 4th, and today the Primary School also shut down for the Period.    National Exams for the Form 4s in High School continue for a little, and next week the Primary National Exam will be done - Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.  THEN it will be quieter by about 700 kids daily.     But our 137 will still be around, and they are not usually unnoticed !!    The WEATHER is somewhat colder. There is some rain but not deludes, and really in our area we are not seeing, even now, any real EL NINO symptoms.    The harvest so far has been good, Thank God.

IT IS HOPED that before the end of November our NEW 'Day Care Centre' will have opened in the OLD part of the old Jacaranda Cottage, opposite the NEW.     The old part frontage is shown in the photo to the right, and is the MUD brick end. Midway on the right you can just see a little of the ridge roof that covers the other end of the house - that part built with breeze block.     DARYL has been VERY busy trying to re plan the interior and get it equipped and furnished - not at all easy when finance was not really just lying around waiting to be used on it.    As soon as work started the Lord just gave us all faith and assurance that this IS the next step.    Hopefully next week I will send some photos of how it will look inside.   We are thinking of starting with up to 20 one to three year olds, and see how things. go.    So far we are happy with how things have been developing, and once again Daryl has been demonstrating his ability to make something out of nothing - with nothing in hand to actually do it.

AND THIS IS IT for this week!       Continue to pray for us, and help us to press on regardless.
The Lord is with us, as He is also with you.    He laid His hand on our Cleaner, Harbert, and he now out of hospital and in good recovery.    All has been provided for his need and the cost of his hospitalisation.    A real answer to prayer all round.    God IS Good!

Lovingly always in His Name

John, Esther, and Daryl