One Day to go

Dear All

We are almost packed for the trip, not the house move as yet, though that is underway. Tomorrow we will drive the 450km to Dar es Salaam which will take, God willing, about 6 - 7 hours. We will stay in a guest house over night and then have a taxi pick us up around 4.30 to 5 on Tuesday morning to take us to the airport for a 7.30 flight out of Dar to London. We hope to arrive about 4.30 in the afternoon in London and then we have to drive to Ashford only about 1.5 to 2 hours.

Edith has a lot of things packed in the house and John-Luke and Gabriella are getting excited about the flight and seeing our family and friends in England. Paul managed to complete the May accounts for Tanzania though with some late nights/ early mornings but they are completed and sent out.

Please pray for safe travelling for us all, road and air.

Wednesday we have some appointments and some time to get over the trip. Then Thursday we head to London for our medical check ups and then on Friday we will have the day with Tim, Deb & family, Paul's brother who lives in Germany who are currently in England but will leave on Saturday. The next week Paul has meetings in the MAF International offices in Ashford with the other Finance managers from the Africa region and UK finance staff.

We hope to have a little rest but will also be doing some visiting.

God Bless and love from us all.

Paul, Edith, John-Luke and Gabriella.

Final Week

This week the children have off from Home schooling as Edith is concentrating on packing up the house for the move in August.

In addition to Paul being acting programme manager this week he is trying to finish the May figures before the end of the week. He also has the June wages to get sorted out and complete a VAT return for May as well.

On Monday morning next week we will head off to Dar es Salaam and stay there over night and then get a flight out on Tuesday morning to the UK for our home assignment.

Thank you all for your prayers and support.

God Bless and love form us all.

Two weeks to go.

Please pray for Paul's Deputy Frank and his wife Honartha who's 3 month baby suddenly died on Saturday. Edith was able to attend the service and burial today, whilst Paul stayed with the children. Please pray for strength and comfort for the family.

This is the last week for home school for John-Luke and Gabriella as next week Edith will be concentrating on packing. We managed to get some boxes pack on Saturday as well.

Paul has almost completed the April work and will start tomorrow on May and hopes that it will all completed by the end of the next two weeks before we leave for the UK.

Please pray that the next two weeks everything will run well and we will be able to complete all the jobs we need to do before we start to travel.

Thanks for all you prayers and support.

God Bless and love from us all.