Refreshed

Just want to add a quick note about our time with the Buckie Church. Once every quarter I have the joy of going up with Fenella and the girls to preach for the Buckie church and it is always a time of refreshing . There may only be a handful of members, but the time we spend with them is without doubt a a huge source of encouraging and up-building for us. Bill and Elanor Pirrie are giants! We really admire their faithfulness and devotion in service to the kingdom. I came away from Buckie feeling very content in the knowledge that we had been a blessing to the church there and in return we were blessed, a true "Church" experience.
My contentment may also be down to the fact that we stopped in at Cullen on our way home for some ice cream - a truly heavenly experience!

During the past few days we have had a frenzy of school activities. This has been fantastic! Dan, one of the Harding group, still had a week with us after the rest of the group left and was able to share in some of our ministry to the schools. I was asked to do a mornings activities with Dales Park school as part of their "Active Health Week" so we brought along a rope for tug of war and a bat and ball for some rounders (like baseball). It was an excellent morning, the weather was sunny and the kids were really up for it. The tug of war was the big hit and had everyone involved. Having the morning with the kids really set us up for a brilliant assembly yesterday! I had two assemblies at DP, the P5-7's first and then the P1-4's. What a good couple of assemblies they turned out to be. I talked about The Lion King movie when Muffasa comes to the rescue of Simba and Nalla after they had wandered of to the forbidden "Elephant's Graveyard" and then were confronted the Hyena's. I then taught the parable of the lost sheep which paralleled the Lion King clip. The response was great and the head teacher came to me after and said she can't wait for the nest one it was so good. I am glad I have a passion for connecting God with the kids and yesterday was one of those days when I was reminded how good it is to have God's Spirit working in us.

It has been great having Jenny here these past days and she has slotted back in as if she never left. I am confident there will good times ahead for the kids here and that many seeds will be planted as a result of Jenny serving with us. In fact many seeds have already been sown! Monday at Crimond School we had an assembly in the morning and it gave Jenny a chance to renew acquaintances with the pupils and in the afternoon we were back again to play some soccer. Jenny has really hit the deck running and has done a great job in spite of combating the jet lag etc...

Well, classes are back to normal after the topsy turvy campaign schedule. For the most part things are going fine. We need to build up the Wednesday night class some. We are struggling to keep some kind of consistency with the teachers, but everyone is doing what they can to make things work. Thursday teen night continue to be excellent and is the area I am most encouraged with. Monday with the primary school kids is doing well and we have a great bunch coming. In all things are good and we will spent the next 4 weeks stabilising things after the breaks resulting from the campaign.

Starting to get excited about my brother George and his family coming in July - can't wait to see them all. They get to spend 4 weeks over here - outstanding!

God Bless!