Transition

The team is here and ready to start work tomorrow (Monday). There has been a lot of progress in the Drop-In Centre. Andrew was delighted by what has happened while we have been away. The Proyecto MEFI team have worked very hard.

After the US team leaves the Proyecto MEFI team (the Mexican part!) will take a week off before another team arrives from the UK to hopefully put finishing touches to the Centre.

Praise God the annual meeting of the church leaders, church planting teams and missionaries went really well. Andrew's report seemed to be well received. There was a real sense of unity.

Tabitha had a blast spending lots of time with the MacKinnons as I helped Robin to pack boxes for their house move on Saturday. It was a great chance for us to have some time to begin to catch up and to make what could potentially be a stressful situation a chance to bless, be blessed and have some fun along the way.

The move took place on Saturday. Andrew was with the team, Margaret was looking after 6 kids (all under the age of 7!), Christian was in the old house with the removal guys and Robin and I were unpacking the kitchen. When we were finished we popped out for a message. We took my little car. We were quite tight for time. As we made our way back to the house my right foot seemed to lose the ability to keep the car moving! With said foot to the floor we managed to make it at about 5 mph to a place where we could pull over. Now here is how God intervenes - we were able to pull in to a spot where we were safe (outside a lovely little park!), we were close to home, we had a mobile (cell) phone (with credit and battery charge!) so we could phone Andrew who had arrived home, we had bought food so we had time to eat it, we had each others company, our kids were happy at home with Margaret... So Andrew came and rescued us. We took his car and he nursed my little car to the garage. We took a back route to the MacKinnons new house which neither of us knew which was potentially a bad idea (but good because of the backed up traffic on the main road). We followed our noses (another bad idea if you know either of us!) and praised God when we took a turn up a very steep hill (which the Clio would have struggled with even at full potential) which led us straight to the MacKinnons road. An eventful afternoon!

So tomorrow my little car will be serviced and hopefully the guys will find out what the problem is and hopefully it won't be too drastic. Andrew will have to go to the Holiday Bible Club on his own as he will go straight to the Drop-In Centre afterwards. Please pray for his stamina this week. It is particularly busy for him as he has that same schedule every day. I'm hoping that the little car won't take long to fix so I can take the kids out for at least a couple of mornings.

We had our first Sunday back in La Loma today. We were given a warm welcome. It really was lovely to see people again and to be a part of the service. Tabitha did well. We have noticed that when people are speaking Spanish she goes very quiet, starts rubbing her 'blankie' and sucking her fingers. Last week we had her surrounded by Spanish in short doses a few times so this morning was her first real test as we left her in the nursery with no English. She seemed to have a great time. We appreciate your prayers as she continues to make the transition back into Spanish again.