Camps Are Over....

Well, the camps are over for another year....
So much hard work before the camps, all gone in such a short space of time!

We Were Going To be So Good...

We were going to update before and after Spring Harvest - but time ran away again!

We were due to do Minehead 2 and Skegness for Spring Harvest, but due to the wife of one of our colleagues breaking her wrist and a bit of reshuffling, we ended up doing Minehead 1 and 2 followed by Skegness.

Anniversary Day

It's our wedding anniversary today.

19 years! Wow - how did that happen?!

Kay tweeted about this using the hashtags #Happy, #Blessed and #Thankful.

Having asked Steve how he would sum up the last 19 years his reply was "Happy".

So we seem to be of one mind on this - nothing unusual there!

Our promised January Update

We promised those who follow what we're doing and support/pray for us, that we would send a newsletter at the end of January.... and in the process of promising that managed to make everything sound a little mysterious!

Well, here it is!

We wanted to speak with our membership before releasing our main news item. It was our full team conference last week (And what a good one it was!) so the news has now had a chance to settle.

Happy Christmas

We haven't written a Christmas prayer letter this year. Instead, we're going to send one out at the end of January, so we can include all our news in one go (That sounds mysterious doesn't it!)

We've also opted not to send out so many Christmas cards - with the cost of postage now so high and so many friends, we decided we'd rather send only a few cards and make a donation to charity instead. (Home for Good) We hope you don't mind!

Guilty Secrets of Two Itinerant Workers (Who Live By Faith)

After a board meeting, and delivering some training for a local church on working with children who have additional needs - we managed to take some annual leave. This was thanks to the amazing generosity of friends.

When living by faith, it's very easy to feel guilty about taking a holiday abroad..... and hard to admit it! So we often qualify it with the "Gift of a friend" sentence, closely followed by the fact it's often cheaper to holiday abroad when there's only two of you going. We know many other full time workers who also feel guilty.... why is that?!

What We've Been Up To This Week

We've been travelling a bit this week!

The week started with a Family Foundations Trust board meeting at Dalesdown (nr Horsham). There was lots to discus as we looked at various aspects of the work of Children Worldwide and Dalesdown. We had a brilliant update from the camps, and heard about the difference these camps have once again made in the lives of so many children. It was the last camp for Sarah Covington, who has been leading them for a number of years, but involved in them for 18 years. She will be greatly missed! Sarah is moving to Knowle in the West Midlands to take up a post at the parish church there.