Short Week this week

Dear Family and Friends

This week's working week will be a short, as the school has a short two day break at the end of the week, so school is only Monday to Wednesday. Edith will continue to help with swimming at the school as well as helping at the handicapped centre as they prepare things to sell at for the Christmas period to help support the work.

Paul travelled back from Dodoma on Saturday he did not have to drive as he was able to travel back with Allan Conrad an ex MAF international staff member who retired and stayed in Tanzania. He was travelling to Dar to pick his brother up who was going to be visiting him. Paul has known since 1997 when they met in the UK. Paul made good progress with the October figures but was not able to get as far as hoped as Frank his deputy was busy for mush of the week helping one of the MAF staff out with a court case relating to a road accident, it was eventually sorted out on Friday. The good point was that Paul managed to spend some time on some old items that needed sorting out and needed a fair amount to sort out, so he made good progress on some of these areas. God willing he will complete the figures this coming week by Wednesday and will then have a couple of days holiday with the family as there is no school.

Please pray that it will be a good week. We have been having a lot of power outages in Tanzania over the past week and it is due to last into this week while they work on repairs at one of the power stations. Please pray that Paul does not get too many interruptions so he can complete the October figures. Finally please pray for a good family time at the end of the week.

Praise for safety and safe travels over the past week.

God bless and love from us all.
  

Dar and Dodoma

Dear All

Today John-Luke took part in a swimming Gala his first one since joining the school swimming club. Edith also helps with the swimming club as well as the primary swimming.

Paul is in Dodoma this week and will return on Saturday to Dar es Salaam. He is there working on the October figures and is also hoping to tackle a couple of areas that need some more work on them to get them sorted out. We hope to have things very tidy by the end of the year.

Please continue to pray for us as we look to the Lord for our future that he will lead us into the work he wants us to do when we finish this term here in Tanzania.

Please also pray for the programme as this is the last week for us to send into MAF ideas for the coming years for MAF's work in Tanzania.

God Bless you all with all our love

Paul, Edith, John-Luke and Gabriella

Travelling starts again.

Dear All

We had a great week last week. The special week at school for the children went very well, as they dressed up differently each day. Monday was crazy colour disaster day, Tuesday was Decade Day so dress as someone from the past, Wednesday character day so they would dress as different characters, Thursday was dress as a tourist day and then on Friday the whole family was at the school for International day dressed in the colours of our countries. The school is a very multicultural school and around 35 countries have people at the school. We even had food's from many of the countries for people to try.

This week will be back to a normal week at the school though on Friday John-Luke's class will be taking the Assembly for the school. Edith continues to be involved in helping with all the primary classes and their swimming lessons.

Paul will have most of the week in the Dar office as they try and complete some of the October figures, he will then travel up to Dodoma on Friday after John-Luke's assembly to spend the following week in Dodoma. Please pray for the family as they remain in Dar whilst Paul is away. Edith's 'sister' Lillian has also arrived from Uganda to stay with us for a time so that will be some extra company for the family whilst Paul is away.

Thanks for all your prayers and support.

God Bless and love from us all.

Special week at School

Dear Friends and Family

This week is a special week at school and the children get to dress up in different ways each day and then on Friday it will be International day when the school comes together to celebrate all the different nationalities at the school, there are normally over thirty if I remember correctly. We all go in colours of are countries or national dress, it's normally a great day. There are also displaces of different countries and some have different national foods to try, Edith has the job of organising the English display this year.

 Edith is now fairly busy helping at the school with the swimming for all the primary school classes, alone with her helping out at the Nuru centre as they prepare things to sell for Christmas.

Paul has the week in Dar and will be starting work on the October figures. On Monday he has a doctors appointment to see if he still need to take the medication he has been taken or whether he can stop it now. Paul has continued on working on figures for the possible ideas for the future of the programme, we are expecting this to come to an end over the next two weeks when we have to send in out thought to MAF International. Please continue to pray for wisdom for all involved and that we might know the Lord's leading in all of this change that will happen.

Have a wonderful week and God Bless you all.

With all our love and prayers.

Paul, Edith, John-Luke and Gabriella.