Day to day

Mon: -

• Open Doors in the morning, working with children in Speech Therapy
• Aerobics class in the afternoon :-)

Tues: -

• Usually off in the morning, sometimes at Open Doors
• Gyero in the afternoon to do language therapy with Emmanuel (Emma)
  

Wed: -

• Outreach into the Brothels in the morning with the Grace Gardens team (I only started to go on outreach last week)
• Taking a kids choir in the afternoon
• Aerobics in the afternoon! (when Im feeling motivated!)
  

Thurs: -

• Open Doors in the morning
• Teaching English at the City Ministries Widows ministry in the afternoon.
• Every first Thursday of the month we have a CM meeting in the afternoon
  

Fri: -

• Working from home in the morning, or doing whatever needs done
• Bible study with short-termers in the afternoon (when we have short-termers around)
• Freitheim Friday! (Dinner at the house of an American family. Peter is in charge of City Ministries and the family kindly have everyone for dinner on Friday to thank us for our work during the week)
  

Sat: -

• It varies, but mostly relaxing or doing something fun.
• Once a month we have a Mission Africa prayer meeting on a Saturday morning
  

Sun: -

• Church in the morning
• Chilling in the afternoon. (Occasionally I go to Kagoro to visit the kids at the Gidan Bege there and spend some time with them, singing and giving guitar lessons.)

In Africa, you shouldn't really have a schedule because you are not likely to stick to it, you just take life as it comes, so some weeks are a bit different.

Mum and dads visit

Since my mum and dad told me they were going to come and visit, I had been anticipating their arrival for months and was so excited that I had their schedule organised for quite a while!

Mum at Gyero Care Centre

Having my parents visit was such a blessing and it really encouraged me to see their enthusiasm and their willingness to get involved. They were so free with everyone here and they didnt mind me keeping them so busy, they were eager to see everything and everyone!



Check out the Kaftan - Not sure he will be wearing this to Carnmoney!

It is already making a huge difference. Now when I talk about the different ministries, places, people, they have a greater understanding and know exactly what I am talking about. It also helps my mum and dad pray more effectively for all the places and people because they can picture it.


Mum and I at Gidan Bege, Kagoro, Kaduna State




Dad made a new friend at Open Doors :)

Thank you mum and dad for your sacrifice to come the whole way over to Nigeria! Thank you for trusting God and not being afraid to come here. Thank you for all you did and all that you are now doing to help ministries and people out here. Love you both lots and lots!

A white Christmas

If someone says "2 days!" to you in Nigeria, it means that they haven't seen you in quite a while, I'm so sorry its been so long since i last blogged!

I will be blogging a few posts to get you all up-to-date. Let me tell you about Christmas first:

So, back home we dream of a white Christmas, with snow flakes falling on the ground. Myself and a couple of friends - one from England and the other from America gave a whole village a white Christmas and it lasted for 1 whole week! - How? I hear you ask?...By us spending Christmas in their village! ;-)

Japheth, a very special friend, kindly invited the 3 of us to spend Christmas with his family. His village is called Kamwai, and it's in an area called Bokkos, in Plateau State.

Kamwai is beautiful! Its set in the valleys and its surroundings are stunning. Its such a peaceful part of the country!

We had such a special time in the village - We went on an adventure through the bush, made it across what the locals call "the monkey bridge" (put together with logs, reeds and planks of wood) It was quite the experience, but a great feeling when we made it to the other side! We went to a powerful Christmas Eve and Christmas day service in the village church, which consisted of a lot of dancing, especially during the offering! On Christmas day we ate a lot and then we did some exercise afterwards - TRIBAL DANCING! :-) This is what I had been looking forward to for weeks! We danced our way to the Chief of the villages house with the whole village community! We danced for around 2 hours! This was the most energetic Christmas day I have ever had! The Kakas (elderly women) managed to dance for a lot longer than that! We had a lot of fun dancing and probably could have kept going had it not been for the dust we were all inhaling, which was due to dust been kicked off the ground as so many were dancing. We had a true African Christmas. I LOVED my time there! I hope to be spending Easter in Kamwai!