Team update

Monday
Breakfast, Ian hogged the Marmite - not that we minded..... Much!!
All of us went to Galaha, we expected 31 chidren and we had a 100 children and 30 mothers. We sang, played pass the parcel, but the balloons were the biggest hit. Suresh, our interpreter was great and joined in. Bob E told the story of the 4 friends - Luke 5v17. We asked the children questions on the story, they answered really well - so they were listening. The open air church was up in the mountains and was lovely and cool, with beautiful views.
Sue and Ian had a visit to the local doctors, so clean, quick and cheap. Danny, our driver suddenly became sick and in pain, he was raced to hospital, we prayed and they injected him for kidney stones and within half an hour he was at home eating. Praise God.
Some of us finished the day off with an Sri Lankan special, a dish called hoppers, egg and hot chilli filling. Delicious. Home and bed.

Tuesday
11.50am All excited, Alice & Dave will be here soon. We are sorting out the blankets for when we go to the cool area to give to the children. We also arranged the presents and prizes for our next three childrens ministries.We plan to go up country, down south! Will explain later. Whooppee the sun is shining.
3.45pm Dave & Alice arrive safely. We are talking about improving the chicken house making it mongoose proof. The 2 Bobs went to visit the chicken house area, Bob C bought 4 leeches home with him. Great excitement as he tried to beat them to death... It doesn't work - and thats where they plan to build.
So many of us, everyone nearly has a bed tonight! And so to bed as early rise of 5am tomorrow as we are going Nuwara - eliyl. Get your teeth round that one!
love to you all - The Team
Wedneday
After an early start and a 4 hour journey. We stopped to eat and went straight to the local church to minister to them. The children greeted us by singing a song in English to us. It really blessed us and moved us to tears. We greeted them in Tamil with their word for welcome, which is "wannacombe." We had a great time with them and they all gave us a card each that they had prepared for us when we left. We are staying at a hotel and we if the rain stops should be doing an outdoor ministry with children tonight.