Andrea’s Journal Sunday 8th January
Happy New Year everyone! Here we are back in Bulawayo, after 7 weeks away. We had a good rest in Spain and were blessed by a month of beautiful weather, by the standards of any European winter. I also spent a week in the UK visiting family.
Our journey back was straightforward and uneventful, with only an hour’s delay in Alicante. We stayed overnight in Johannesburg and arrived home Friday lunchtime. Ngwenya was very excited to have us back and Webster and family seemed pleased to see us too. Everything was fine at home, apart from the house being full of spiders and evidence of a visiting “creature” in our wardrobe! It is very hot here at the moment, around 31C, being the height of summer, yet everywhere looks green and lush.
Today we were welcomed back in church. It was good to see all our friends again and the Pastor and his wife kindly invited us for lunch.
Tomorrow we are going out to Trenance to see Miriam and the children and to have a staff meeting to review last term and discuss the new one, commencing Tuesday, with Themba and Memory.
The way forward for us now, we believe, is to partner with a church or other organization, active in Zimbabwe, who can help us physically on the ground here, when we are not around and also financially, as we cannot move forward and make further progress on our own. If there is anybody out there who shares a heart for educating the underprivileged and the well-being of orphan children, then we would love to hear from you.
More next week. Love Andrea.
As always, you are in our thoughts & prayers. Love Adrian & Marian