Sermon ready for Saturday

Amidst so much else today I managed to complete my preparation of my sermon for Saturday and prepared for the Bible study tonight. There was also a session of dental hygiene done with the kids at our school in Patos today carried out by the Care Centre team. I also answered a long survey from the London School of Theology as best as I could remember going back over 30 years! I've also been contacted by the State-wide Paraíba TV network today wanting to film an interview with me. Oh boy... it's non-stop!

8th grandchild comes to cousin's birthday party!

Today was granddaughter Alice's 8th birthday and who came to the little party and was especially welcomed was Amanda Ivy who at nearly 3 months old is doing well. PTL!

Thinking ahead haircut!

I've had my hair cut this morning so that I can get another haircut/trim in on the eve of travel to the UK and then hopefully last the 10 weeks in the UK without needing one!

Project vehicle attacked!

I have just received news that our project team vehicle, A small Fiat pick-up, was attacked tonight by a large rock which was thrown damaging the right hand side of the vehicle and the windscreen. None of our team was hurt. The police were called and they discovered it had been done but a mentally ill man who has got it into his head that the well we are aiming to drill for the Angola Community, about 5 miles from Green Pastures, should not be drilled. Please pray for the team and for the project.

Just for you to have an idea!

Just for you to have an idea about the pressure I am under, with less than 4 weeks to go to lift off to the UK, let me tell you this briefly:

1. I have completed the 10 pastors list to preach on the Sundays I'm away and written a longish email to them all with some basic instructions about not preaching too long etc.!

2. I am also in the middle of preparing a sermon for this Saturday at the Curral Velho (Old Cow Pen) church when a deaconess from the Patos church contacts me via a facebook message to ask for help with interpreting the extermination of the Cannanites in Joshua 6:21 as she has to teach this in the Sunday School and doesn't know hope to cope - especially in the light of present day Islamic State's similar practices! Now look - that I just could not answer with 'let me get back from the UK'! I had to plunge deep into a massively  complex and difficult issue and help her! Oh Lord!

I do value your prayers!

Heathrow here we come!

4 weeks today we will be arriving at Heathrow airport at 12.45 pm (DV) for a 10 Sundays tour of UK churches, plus a few mid-week days in Switzerland. There is so much yet to prepare and we value your prayers.

Action School Fire

Early in July the Manaira Action School was given a second hand fridge, to help with the food side of the school, by a visitor from our Campina Grande church. During the School holidays it was not switched on but yesterday they switched it on preparing for the return to lessons. Unfortunately the fridge later caught fire, burnt completely out and bought down part of the ceiling, and the black smoke means the whole place is going to have to be cleaned up and repainted. Gratefully nobody was in the building at the time. An investigation is now going on about where this fridge exactly had come from and what had been done to it prior to it being given to the school. Please pray for EAB/ACEV's Manaíra School.