Holiday time

We're now looking forward very much to our trip back to the UK in 2 weeks from now! Someone asked me today what I was looking forward to most, and I couldn't say - unless I'm allowed to say 'all the people'. This is a piccy of when my good friend Anna came to visit in October, and we had such fun together, and such good chats. It was so encouraging that although we hadn't seen each other for 2 years, and hadn't even talked on the phone all that much, we could pick up just where we'd left off, and it didn't feel as though so much time had passed at all! Hurrah! So it will be very interesting to see the M25, and compare it to SH1, and Mothy can't wait to taste the beer... but the main thing...?

I'm told there's an old Maori saying that goes:

He aha te mea nui?
He tangata. He tangata. He tangata.

What is the most important thing? It is people, it is people, it is people.

Glad rags II

While Mothy was strutting his stuff in Parparaumu, I got to wear a sari at church for a morning, while the missions team were doing a focus on Freeset bags in India. Check out www.freesetbags.com. My friend Joan (formerly from Malaysia, and now neighbour across the road), had to dress me though! I must say I felt very beautiful, and putting jeans back on was very dull. I can see that wearing a sari would be surprisingly practical - once you got used to it. Apparently Joan didn't do me enough pleats - so I waddled in mine a bit!

Glad rags

Mothy was recently at SLC, (Student Leadership Conference) which was inspiring and encouraging and a great time! Here's a picture of him, showing his farmer tan! Various TSCF staff got to take part in a fashion show, and wear different items of clothing with the new TSCF logo in regional colours for where they work, and then the clothing got auctioned off. Mothy thinks he got the biggest cheer!