Pink sheets

Have a read about what pink sheets are and what crew are up to besides closing the hospital down and packing the Ship up ready to sail....
http://alirae.net/blog/archives/441-six-hundred.html

http://nursemissionary.blogspot.com/2010/08/pink-sheets.html

Grade ONE!!!

Tom starts grade 1 on Monday with his teacher from last year Miss Estelle. We went to visit his new classroom tonight and met his new classmate Anna, taking their class to a total of 6 children. Here are some views of the classroom and the boys trying out Tom's desk whilst trying out their new Academy PE clothes!

Surgery is finishing for this year

VVF surgery is now over again. In fact all surgery finishes this week and so we will just have patients recovering while we prepare for leaving for South Africa. Here are some blogs written about the VVF ladies with some lovely pictures while we were away:

http://nursemissionary.blogspot.com/2010/07/wordless-wednesday-in-her-own-words.html

http://thalexander.blogspot.com/2010/06/from-ashes-to-beauty.html

http://sporadicsnuggs.blogspot.com/2010/06/its-all-about-kidney-juice.html


http://suzanne1337.blogspot.com/2010/06/simple-touch.html

Get your diary out (if you live in the UK)

Mighty Ships is a TV series by Canada's discovery Channel about large ships - and the Africa Mercy is featured in an hour long episode. It has been broadcast in Canada already and people seem to think it has been done well. Hopefully we'll get to watch it soon!

To see it you need to watch Quest TV on Tuesday 7th September at 9pm (Sky Channel 154/Freeview Channel 38). Their website is http://www.questtv.co.uk/

Home

We are now all back in Lome, Togo, West Africa! Tommy travelled back on Saturday to start preparing for the start of the school year next week, Sarah, Tom and Josh arrived back with the newlyweds last night. It is still a little weird, but will hopefully feel more like home again now we have almost unpacked and the boys can see their friends without tripping over suitcases! We are grateful for safe travels, for our tons of luggage all arriving and for a good trip back from the airport. Thanks for making it a great trip home and for your prayers for us over the last weeks and days! We are missing people a great deal and have some mixed emotions about being back so soon and would be grateful for prayers that we settle back here quickly, remembering why we are here.