Happy Easter

Dear Family and Friends

Happy Easter to you all, may you all have some good family time together whilst we remember the death and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour.

Sorry for not having written for a week or so. When Paul was in Moshi it was not limited Internet connection as thought but no Internet connection. When Paul returned he was not too well for a couple of days we think it was something he eat on the return trip. He then worked Monday, then on Tuesday to Thursday we were able to get away for two nights as a family to a small Island just off the Tanzanian coast about 40km north of Dar. The weather was not the best but that did not matter too much as the temperatures were still high and we had a lovely breeze most of the time. We had some great family time together on the beach and on the veranda of the place we were staying, as well as in the sea, something we would not be doing in the UK at this time of year.

The children had last week and this coming week as holiday so we will all travel up to Dodoma on Monday. Paul will work with Neville to catch up with the work there as Neville's time here in Tanzania comes to an end. We and especially Paul are very gratefully to Neville and Janet for all the help they have given over the past six months, we have made some very good progress and Paul has been able to have a few breaks which would not have happened without the help. Neville and Janet will be leaving Tanzania on the 10th April so Paul will take over the responsibilities of finance manager, for now.

We will return to Dar on Saturday 6th April along with Neville and Janet so they can get their flight out back to the UK. Ruben our IT manager and Dodoma base manager will also come back with us, as he needs to get a flight up to Uganda for some meetings with the other IT people from around the MAF programmes.

Please pray for safe travels for us all and also that Paul and Neville will get some good time together and manage to complete all they will need to complete during their time together.

At the end of April we have a flying contract, that we have been operating for the past two and half years, coming to an end. This works in well for MAF Tanzania as we look to see how this effects us, because for most of the coming months our available planes will be limited because of necessary major maintenance. Our two larger planes (Cessna Caravan's) will both have major avionics upgrades and then one will need to be repainted and the other will be due for an engine change, so this will mean we are running with only one of them available for most of the rest of 2013.

Thank you all for your prayers and support.

God Bless you all

Greetings from Dar es Salaam

Dear All

There is not much news to tell you this week. The week ahead looks like a fairly normal week Paul is in the Dar office, the children at School and Edith will be up and down to the school as well.

Next week Paul will be going up to Moshi to attend a Member care course called Sharpening your Interpersonal Skills, a course he has been trying to do for the past two years. It starts on Sunday evening and ends Friday after lunch. Please pray for safe travelling and for protection for the family while Paul is away.

We hope you all have a wonderful week.

God Bless and love form us all.

2012 Accounts Finally Finised

Last week Neville and Paul managed to finish off all the last adjustments for the 2012 financial accounts for the Tanzania Programme and they have been sent into MAF International to be consolidated with the other programmes and support groups within the MAF International family. This week Paul and Neville will review the projects Paul has been working on for the past months and see where we are on them. We have one more month left before Neville returns to the UK and Paul will then again be covering the finance managers work. Having said this MAFI are looking for another person to take on the position of finance manager, who would be based in Dodoma and Paul would continue to work on a new projects supporting the finance manager as needed, but until they have found someone Paul will need to cover the finance managers work. Please pray first that the right person will be found to take up this work and that he will be able to take over as soon as possible and that this last month with Neville we will be able to make some more progress in sort things out.

The children continue to do well at school. I am not sure that we have mentioned it before but Gabriella was elected joint President to represent her class on the student council. Edith continue to help out with swimming and was called in for extra help last week with the secondary students.

We are currently booking out flights for home assignment and we are currently expecting to be flying to the UK on 19th July and returning to Tanzania on 27th August. Please pray that all will work out with these flights. We now unfortunately can not make a direct flight from Tanzania to England as British Airways (BA) will stop flying to Dar es Salaam at the end of March. We are expecting to now possible use Swiss Airlines as we are currently entering into an agreement with the in a similar to what we did have with BA.

We we hope and pray that you all will have a wonderful week, may you know God's blessings on your lives.

God Bless and love from us all

Paul, Edith, John-Luke and Gabriella