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I am pleased to report that everything is going well. Although these past two months have been rather chaotic, they have been by far the most enjoyable.

Last month, a group of us (locals and P2P volunteers) went up to the Drakensberg for the weekend and broke bread with an elderly couple in isolation. It was an extremely uplifting weekend for all of us!

At the end of last month I went down to Margate to help the P2P volunteers – Richard and Suzie from the UK. We had a praise and worship afternoon on the Saturday as well as an ecclesial lunch on the Sunday.

At the beginning of this month we had a sister’s weekend. I helped organise the Candu sisters to come up to the weekend (fetching them from the bus station and finding accommodation etc). It seemed straight forward at the time when I offered to do it, but then when they had missed their bus and all the other complications that went with it, I was simply happy to have arrived safely at the camp with them.

I am currently organising fund raising for some of the youth from Mariannhill to attend a camp in Johanesburg and we are making good progress. Some of their efforts involve selling cakes, having movie nights and fashion shows etc. I am positive we will reach our goal.

Towards the end of last month we had photos taken of the children at the schools, individual as well as class photos. Unfortunately it was raining the day we went to Mariannhill, so these were taken indoors.

At the beginning of this month we had clinic sisters go to the schools to give Vitamin A drops and get all the children’s immunisations up to date. I am hopeful that this will boost the children’s immune systems and help prevent some of the diseases which have been prevalent this year.

We are closing the schools for the upcoming holiday period, and I will be running workshops with the teachers on a number of different things. I’m suspending the youth class in conjunction with my reading class as holidays are a time of chaos. This will give me an opportunity to take a break and catch up on my paper work. The only two things that have not stopped during the holidays are the BEC and our Monday night youth classes – although David is away we have arranged other speakers to fill in.

God is certainly working with the hearts of the locals. So many more people have been asking me how they can get more involved with 2010. At the moment I have a group of men from the Durban and Westville ecclesias’s who will be going to Lamontville during the holidays to do maintenance work.

I’m looking forward to next term and I pray that the Lord will bless our work in His service.

The Lamontville junior youth stretching before playing limbo low.

The Lamontville Junior youth concentrating in the finals of Limbo low

The Mariannhill class

The Lamontville class