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Greetings once again from Jos!
We are safely back to our N1gerian home and settling in well. Dan has started school and despite tiredness and a definite increase in the volume of homework, he is remaining positive and doing well.
Rainy season is in full flow, we get rain most afternoons. In fact the last three days, the rain has started pretty much on the dot of 3pm, right when I need to leave to collect Dan from school, and when it rains here, it does not mess around! The road becomes a river, masking the deceptively deep potholes and making travel by kekenapep (N1geria’s version of the tuk-tuk, aka motorised rickshaw) a rather damp adventure.
Tim and I are back at work. I am battling large volumes of e-mail and processing some possible changes to my role, more on that another time. Tim has come back into some very tricky situations relating to our group finances. Praise God it is not any issue within the organisation but rather an external issue that is affecting our ability to get money transferred into the country. This in turn means that we can’t get enough cash as an organisation and therefore having to find alternative pay our bills in-country. When some of those bills relate to immigration charges it could also affect individuals’ ability to remain in the country! Please pray for God’s good and perfect will to be done so that the situation might be resolved in the best possible way, bringing glory to His name.
One piece of exciting news that we received just before we left the UK is that SIL N1geria (the group that we work with here) has finally been incorporated as an organisation. It is a bit of a long story (somewhat crazy details available on request) but the key thing is that this means that we are now officially recognised here and we are praying that God will use this to open more doors for us, to do things like working with the government to promote the use of minority languages in education.
Thank you for all your prayers and support, we are able to be here because of you.
Praise Settled back into life here quickly and with minimal disruption Dan is tackling middle school with a positive attitude SIL N1geria now incorporated
Prayer Good resolution for the financial issues facing SIL N1geria Dan to adjust to the increased responsibility he needs to take at school and to the more challenging homework Godly wisdom for me as I process how my role might change
