Back from Israel

Hi Y'all,

We left Israel one week ago today. The trip down to Kenya was long and quite turbulent. We were met at the airport by a taxi from Menno at 1:45 a.m., which was nice. We got to sleep at after 3 a.m., then were up for breakfast at 7:30 because we wanted to see Daniel, Kristie and Meg. Meg (17 month old granddaughter) will take a while to warm up to us.

When Barbie (my sister) arrived with Pastor James, we went shopping downtown and she was able to get some final things she wanted. Daniel and Kristie went, too. It was very hot. We got back to Menno in time for tea and supper, then we took Barbie to the airport. There were lots of flights going out. She took extra snacks in case her flight got cancelled from Amsterdam on, but it didn’t.

Thursday afternoon I went over to Pan African High School and it has been arranged to go over there each week for knitting and Bible on Thursday afternoons. It is just a small group, but I would rather start that way. Saturday we started up our classes for youth at YIT church. Numbers were down, but it takes people time to get back into the school routine.

Today we had four in deaf church, but it went well. Gloria (Sis Alices’s daughter who used to live with us years ago when she was in Grade one) has some degree as a social worker and has learned sign language. She was in deaf church last week, but we were gone. I don’t know if she plans to come back into this area to work or not.

So, it will take a couple of weeks to get back into routine, but we are trusting the Lord to guide us as we shift some of our ministries around.

There is a new couple in Bible School who are from Tanzania. They have a little boy who looks to be about four, who walks on the out side of his feet and his feet point towards each other. How blessed we have been to have normal limbs for our little ones.

One of the street girls who doesn't come regularly is critically ill and taken to hospital today. She is HIV positive, though only about 15.

Sandy for us both