Catching up
It has been a while since I last blogged and there are a lot of things to catch up on.
We had a good festive season, and a great end of year party. We chose a really cheesy theme – Hawaiian Luau, which was a whole lot of fun! A lot of people put hard work into making it really special. Thanks to everyone who contributed especially Sam and Glenda. Check out the photo’s
here.
The Christmas service went well. We had a candlelit service with carols the Saturday before Christmas, and then had a two-week break over Christmas and New Year.
On a sad note we bade farewell to Richard who left for Cape Town to pursue his architectural career. We are already missing his energy and contribution, especially musically.
More recently Alan, Ros and Gloria took on the challenge of Valentines Day. They transformed the room with hearts and candles and set up a really funny version of the old Springbok Radio show “Check your mate”. The contestant couples were Piet and Arlene and Glenda and I. The van Rensburg’s pipped us by the narrowest of margins, but we still won some chocolate, which is ok with us. We all had a lot of fun.
Being a dad is wonderful and lots of hard work at the same time. The disturbed sleep has been taking its toll, particularly on Glenda, but the smiles and fun definitely outweigh this by far. The challenge facing us now is teaching Joshua to sleep through the night.
God really blessed our family with a new place to stay. We were given notice on the garden cottage that we had occupied for 10 years in Gonubie. With the property market booming we found it very difficult to find a suitable place. One of our prayers was to be close to the church. After months of searching and lots of false starts we found a beautiful two bedroomed cottage no more than 300m from where we meet. It has everything we need and is only a year old and has been finished really well. I know that stacks of people saw it before us, but the owners decided that we were the people for the place! God exceeded our expectations by far and answered our prayers, and we are really happy living where we are. Now we can walk to church. He is Good!
