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Laura wrote recently...

‘Greetings to you all, in love and in humility. As we attempt to focus on Jesus and know him better we often end up being more distracted by the world and spending much more time in the world instead of in God's word . The girls and James have bible verses to memorize each week. Those of us who come to know Christ later on in life often struggle to get even simple verses to stick in our memories and are less well armed to face the cunning works of the devil when he comes prowling around. We don't want to be like the person who looks in a mirror and sees themselves only to walk away and forget what they looked like. We do want God's words to spring into our minds as soon as danger comes and not identify our enemy hours later, after he has wounded us and run off gleefully. Esther does archery after school. Letting her eye drift for a millisecond ensures she misses her target, particularly as she is only one point off moving up to ‘20 metres': this drift is more than just frustrating for her. I am sure the devil waits for that drift when we take our eye off Jesus for a moment and are distracted before he shoots his first arrow. He continues to fire while we arm ourselves, until when poised in position we find our target has run away and left us wounded.

‘We give thanks and praise that because of Jesus' wounds on the cross, our wounds are healed and the undeserving grace that we receive allows us to walk away, scarred but maybe wiser.

‘Power cuts are yet again challenging us. But praise the Lord, the rains have started again and the heat is less, some days. The humidity is still a killer along with that old one, prickly heat! But we have much to be thankful for and much to celebrate over in our corner of the world.

We thank God for a wonderful retreat which Grace was part of in March and which was very uplifting. Many young Christians from HOPAC were touched and filled with the

Holy Spirit and had amazing stories to tell of experiences of God. Seeing them try to have an impact on their peers and be ‘challenging but loving' to the many non Christians in their classes, is a joy to see and hear about. Please pray for them to be strong and dodge those ‘arrows'. Pray for the leaders that they can become. We thank God and for all our faithful supporters who make it possible for us to be here and have the privilege for our children to be educated in a Christian school which attempts to deliver education from a biblical perspective to children from over 40 different backgrounds and cultures. Please if you are a teacher, is God calling you to be one in Tanzania: there is a Chair of the School Board who would love to hear from you!

‘Having expected a few quiet weeks at the Nuru Workshop for disabled adults at the start of the year, we have been surprised by just how busy it has been. We are thankful to God that we have paid wages and have done some repairs. We are evaluating new initiatives, but change is ever a strange uncomfortable thing. We have no manager at the moment and have divided up responsibilities amongst the Committee members and the staff. Some of this is going well and some not so well. We pray for peace through this transition and that soon we will be able to employ some new staff and so share the blessing that Nuru has been to those who have worked there. I currently hold the money and pay the wages and visit the bank which is a new experience. The manager of our branch specifically called me into her office to greet me....! I had been teaching her children the day before in Sunday School. What a wonderful God we have! I am also the person whose name is called out more often than any other name and I wonder why my list of jobs does not get shorter. Thank you, friends, who have helped Nuru install gutters and a tank to collect rain water. All are looking forward to having the non salty drinking water available for the next few weeks and months.'

Laura, Simon, Grace, Esther and James Xxxxx

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