A whole month!

Can you believe it’s exactly 5 months since we sailed from Sweden to the UK and a whole (fabulous) month since we arrived!


Jez: a year ago today – note the frozen sea, beginning to thaw!


View from our flat this time last year


Jez today, just outside the airfield...


View from our house today!

As many of you may know we’ve recently joined thousands in praying for MAF worldwide. We had prayer requests from over 44 different operating locations/ministries ... it was an amazing phenomenon asking the staff here to stop praying – planes were due into the hanger and would have drowned us out!


Carina with translator giving a word of encouragement to some of the staff gathered to pray


One of the groups, eagerly praying in the hanger

Ants. I just reheated some home made (by our lovely mama Ruth, after all who’s Heinz) carrot soup in the microwave .. and noticed half a dozen ants march out, totally unscathed! They get everywhere: fresh milk from the local cow has to be boiled for 2 mins and in the time it took to be on the boil in a saucepan (and not all over the cooker) these wee beasties had crawled into the newly washed milk jug!



We're encouraged to soak and sterilise most fresh foods we eat (rats run over foodstuffs at the market, pee'ing merrily as they go!) and before they were dry it seemed like a million legs marched out of the bowl! Ants... i could write a sermon on ‘em! Thankfully no large 8 legged horrors have been spotted, nor scorpions or any further snakes: thank you if you’ve prayed!

Ants might not be welcome visitors (i think they’re resident anyway!) but we have had a number who are including (a young, now ex) F-16 fighter jet pilot, en route to consider the work in South Sudan and an ex-Formula One motor racing engineer with Le Mans and Jaguar, who very kindly drove 90 minutes across town to collect our belongings which had survived the North Sea, arriving safely from Sweden: hooray! His expert skills enabled him to navigate awful quagmire/floodwaters but took 7 hours to drive that same journey back, the minibus occasionally floating it would seem! So our “worldly goods” remain stranded – but thankfully dry – in Dar es Salaam until the damaged roads/bridges are repaired; we’ve certainly been able to see first-hand just how vital MAF’s aircraft are out here, particularly in the rainy season. Meanwhile we continue to make do/borrow stuff for a little while longer, tho we hear on the grapevine that we might expect our things very soon!


Flooding in Dar .. one doesn't normally associate floods with Africa!

The rainy season is coming to an end as we approach the dry, colder weather...!

Thanks for reading and may God bless you in your part of the world :o)