Luke's last day at school

It's Luke's last day at school today, after the holidays we'll be in America then flying onto Indonesia. Unfortunately Luke is ill today; he was looking rough coming out of school yesterday and got worse over night, so today, he's relaxing at home taking things easy.

Luke's next school experience will be at Kindergarten in an American education system, different, but fresh new and exciting.

He's enjoyed his time at Wistaston Westfield Infants and has made some friends, (if you're one of them reading this then don't forget to email Luke) his teachers have been great and Luke would like to say a big thank you, especially to the lunch time staff who served up copious amounts of gravy, yum yum.

Speak up we can't hear you at the back

Sunday saw us at Sandbach Baptist Church, explaining our plans and inspiring the people there to live their lives for God (we had the sermon spot).

Emily did the introduction (well done you clever thing you), and I gave the sermon, or was it a message, or just a jibber jabber; if you were there you'd know. It felt like it went well for me, it being my first an all. I prayed that God would help me with the words and that I'd enjoy it, he came up trumps as usual.

The picture? Oh yes when asked my favourite children's TV programme I answered Tin Tin. Detailed pictures and unbelievable story lines, great, only problem was you had to wait a week to see the next episode. I own the complete dvd box set now, very satisfying :)

Well back to the computer, so much to do an all.
Bye, Paul.

4 weeks till blast off

Dear all, My best friend left a long and complicated set of instructions so that paul and I could write posts separately which would mean that you lot would always know who was writing. Given that she is not the first person to express a desire to know who's scrawl she was reading, (and "my heel got stuck in a grate" didn't seem to be clue enough), i thought that it would indeed be helpful to be able to blame rubbish posts on paul or at least gather evidence with regards to who it is in this relationship that maintains the blog... so I have taken the advice of my friend. But because I am too busy deciding which jigsaws to pack and whether i need mascara in indonesia or not, we've decided to go for the low tech option - radical i know - we'll sign our posts! Today, for those of you who haven't been at work today, is th 11th May - not very long at all until blast off...
I leave work 2 weeks today, we move out of our house on the 1st June and we fly to the States on the 8th. We are there until the 1st July after which we will stay with my parents for a couple of weeks before our final departure.
The final departure bit is totally dependant on funding (we can't beek our flights until we have 90% of our funding pledged) - if you're not supporting us but you'd like to be, now is the time to get involved. Please do pray for our final praparations, our goodbyes, money to buy all the things we need and wisdom to deal with 2 little children in transition (and 2 adults too!).
Clinging to him through the trials,
Emily