November

I'm not quite sure if I'm enjoying the quiet of Woodhouse Eaves or not...part of the time I'm loving living simply, earning just enough from temporary work to keep me trudging in and out of Leicester thrice weekly, building Elisa Hombrecher a guitar. Part of the time I'm looking for a bit more fun and events. But I'm clear about one thing...God is very much in control and so I trust Him and take what steps I can.

This is Shona. I've been making her and marveling at the wonder of bringing a live, resonant, singing being into the world:
This is the realisation of the inkling God gave me in August 2007 as I walked through the Fisherman's Rest game park in Malawi, and so if you're reading this, join me in lauding it up to Elyon, the Mighty One.

There's some STORM news as well for those of you following STORM - the trustees are signing on the dotted line this week, which means that STORM is now a charity. What this means for us we still have to see...will we lose our grass-roots appeal? Will money-worries now be a thing of the past? Will it all just continue as it does? We'll see.

For those of you who don't know STORM, it's a student-oriented short term mission operation to Malawi that specialises in relational mission, getting alongside the poorest of the poor, prisoners, the sick and those who never expected to be got alongside. And once alongside them, what do we do? Um...well, we generally only find that out once we get there. But there's always something positive to be done...giving gifts, sharing God's word, singing songs, teaching English, just chatting, knocking down dilapidated buildings, all these have been done. And it's big to me, something I set time aside for weekly, and in particular, each summer when the teams mobilise.

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