Dear friends,
Many thanks for your prayers. Tomorrow we begin our one-week mid-semester break and we're looking forward to a change of routine although we will spend the time marking and studying. The students have to face the challenge of finding the rest of their school fees before returning so please pray for God's provision for them.
We're thankful to the Lord for the health and strength we enjoyed during this part of the semester. Please pray for that to continue and that we will have stamina as the workload increases in the months ahead.
Praise the Lord that David was able to get the freezer working on the 12 volt system. This will make a huge difference to our lives and remove some of the stress of preserving food especially in the hot season. Our electricity supply is still unreliable.
In October David will be involved in a series of meetings: meetings to plan the graduation, meetings of the Board and one of its sub-committees, a management meeting and a meeting with students who hope to graduate to make sure they have met all the requirements. There will probably be others he doesn't know about yet!!
My (Debbie) main pressure, apart from many papers to mark, is completing my own paper for the D. Min programme by the end of the month. Please pray for the ability to focus and to write even when there are so many other things needing attention.
Last week friends brought us some yams from their farm and yesterday our nieghbours shared some of their pepper soup with us (it was spicy enough to make my nose run!!). Thank the Lord for the generosity of the people we live among even though life is not easy for many.
The week before last there was violence in our nearest town resulting in loss of life. The town had a twenty-four hour curfew for three days but now no movement is allowed between dusk and dawn. Please pray for peace to be restored and for comfort for those who lost loved ones. The nation continues to need prayer as violence remains a problem in the north-east of the country.
We were blessed by a series of messages on Ephesians 1 and 2 during our Spiritual Emphasis Week when the speaker reminded us of our identity in Christ. May the Lord help us to remember Who we belong to and Who lives in us (Eph 1:18-20) so we can serve Him faithfully.
Thanks again for your fellowship in prayer.
Debbie and David
