Flights Are Booked!!

I am so excited to be able to let you know that on the 10th of June at 6am we will be leaving Glasgow, via Amsterdam, and arriving in Entebbe,  Uganda late that evening! Four weeks tomorrow (Tues) we will be together as a family again.  Not only that,  but I will have some wonderful company along the way!  Nicky and Jane King from Pitlochry Baptist Church have a ministry which they set up in 1999 called Kingserve.  One of the projects they support is Kitega Community Centre in Uganda. They have graciously offered to fly to Uganda to help me with Abi,  Matthew and Eilidh and the luggage!  They will stay with us/near us for a few days at the beginning and end of their trip and visit various people that they are connected with in between.  Who would have thought we would have visitors from DAY 1?! We are now all booked on the same flights and just have to work out the seating.  Nicky and Jane have been with us from the start of our MAF story and I feel so incredibly blessed to have them fly out with us.  You can find out more about Kingserve Ministries at this site http://www.kingserve.org/

Nicky and Jane King

It has been a whirlwind of a week.  Things always seem to happen at once.  In the same week that we have been trying to co-ordinate booking of flights between MAF office,  Nicky and Jane (who were in England on holiday) and myself her in Scotland,  our shipping container landed in Mombassa, Kenya I have been dealing with urgent emails regarding "Bill of  landing" paperwork and fees allegedly still owed etc.  Phone calls and emails have been flying about between the USA, Kenya,  Uganda and Scotland all at the same time as trying to book flights.   It is wonderful that the container has arrived and we would ask that you would please pray for it's next leg of the journey. After it gets officially released from port,  which still has to happen, then it will take four days to travel by road to Kampala.  Once there,  Andy's passport will have to be present and a customs inspection will be carried out.  Once this has happened it will then have to be delivered and unloaded at the MAF airport  (which is handy for Andy's tool chest, not so for my piano etc.) and then driven in smaller trucks/cars to our house.  The lanes are narrow and not tarmacked around our house so it is not possible to unload the container at the house.

Housing is looking good too.  Mark and Sarah Newnham are moving out at the end of this week into their new house.   (Internet is down in Kampala tonight so I have not been able to confirm,  but this is what I last heard)  Our house will then get painted and Andy will be able to move in.  Hopefully the container will arrive at the same time and he will have a bed to sleep on,  once he has assembled it of course!  It would be very helpful if the container was to arrive just before we arrive on the 10th of June.  The furniture MAF have in storage to help furnish houses for new arrivals is all in use so if our container arrives on time then this would save MAF the expense of purchasing additional furniture that would later be surplus.

In the meantime, I have been very busy packing. I have eight pieces of luggage all packed and weighed.  A neighbour has offered their house for storing the packed luggage which has been a huge blessing as space is tight here with mum. There will be one (maybe two but hopefully only one) more case which will be all the stuff that is floating about the house such as bits and pieces of lego and clothes and shoes that we are currently wearing or using. The house is beginning to look sparse and the children are back to a very limited amount of toys and library books (what would I have done without the library!)  The weather is getting better though and Abi and Matthew have just learned how to ride a bike with no training wheels (stabilisers) so are enjoying sharing the borrowed bike.

It is only eight days till our relatives in Australia arrive for a three week visit.  I have needed to get the packing done earlier as there will be nowhere to lay a case flat in the house.  I am relieved the packing is coming to an end as I hope to be able to relax and be able to help mum with the extra company.  I grew up in a house that was always filled with people so the prospect of more company is exciting.  Packing at the same time however is not.  Nicky and Jane are coming to visit with us for the day on Friday 16th so we can discuss the journey and baggage etc.  I still have the final weighing to be done,  suitcase straps on the thread-bairn ones and luggage tags to attach and it will be a huge weight off my mind.  I plan to have that completed by the end of this week.

I am sharing my testimony again and singing my own compositions on Tuesday 13th of May at the Coffee House in Moodiesburn, Glenmannor Avenue.  It is their monthly ladies night and starts at 7.30pm.   I would love to see you there (ladies) if you can come :0)

Thanks for all your prayers and please keep praying.  We could not do this without all of your support and encouragement.  I have a list of thank you cards that I plan to get around to once this packing is out the way.  I'd love to share with you one of my favourite songs at the moment to encourage you - copy and paste the link below into your browser.  Or type "The Great I Am" into You Tube.  Be Blessed today - His mercies are new EVERY morning.

Three Gorillas and three cheeky monkeys! 

Heatherx

http://youtu.be/w2Yh4exnBU0

Fun at Edinburgh Zoo.