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Dear Friends,
 Life is busy isn’t it?
The last time we wrote to you was August 2007 and a lot has happened since
then!
Mike and I arrived in Western
Australia on 31st August. We travelled around to most of our
supporting churches and also spent time with some of our family and getting
medical checks and some dental work. It was great to catch up with
you. For those of you we did not manage to see, we hope to see you
next time. Six weeks in WA went quickly.
We then flew to New South Wales and
spent 2 weeks in the east. Many many thanks Roger
for taking us to meet lots of people and doing such a wonderful job. Because
of God’s  gracious hand on us, we met many generous people who
gave to the work.
Some of you have  met Pastor Godlissen and
Mama Margreth Mrina,
the local pastors and our partners in the work. This area is heavily
affected by HIV/AIDS. Because of your generosity, (you know who you are)
the school rooms and toilet blocks are being completed ready to start
school in January, and the desks are paid for. The child support was
launched at the first Imara Australia National Conference and the Fleets
and our faithful finance lady, Margie, are overseeing that.
Then we had a quick 10 days in New
Zealand, visiting our eldest daughter, Sharon, and her husband, Peter (we hadn’t seen them for 18 months) and some other
friends. Thanks to Merv and Liz Cullen for the use of their beach
house at beautiful Lang’s beach. After that
we flew back to WAustralia for 8 days where we
visited 3 more churches, said goodbye to our family and attended the first
Imara Australia Conference in Perth. Chris Bullock has agreed to be our new
Imara prayer co-ordinator so we are very thankful for that.
In the mean time, back in Tanzania,
our faithful Imara team  continued the work and several teams visited from the
USA and Australia. Some of the visitors probably don’t
even know who Mike and Lyndall are!
We flew back to Nairobi on the 19th
November, stayed overnight in Nairobi and then Moses drove us back to
Arusha the next day.
Since we arrived back in Tanzania we
have moved to our new house in Tengeru, had Imara retreat, had friends [our
Pastor] visit from Australia (Peter and Lesley Hack and their daughter
Lauren) and we have 2 new dogs. Also I (Lyndall) have been having a
topical anti-cancer treatment on my face and hands and, at the same time, I
have had 30 mango worms hatch out under my skin! Not fun.
We are really happy to be in our new
house and so thankful to the Lord for this wonderful gift. We don’t have electricity yet, (we paid for it in
July!), the kitchen is still being built and the tiler was chopping up the
floor for 4 days and replacing the cracked or loose tiles. But… we
have an amazingly, wonderful view of Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Meru (with snow on it this morning). And we have an
AMAZING WONDERFUL GOD!
Hallelujah! God is faithful. I
love the last words of John Wesley, “Best of
all God is with us”. His name is Immanuel.
"Thankyou" points:
- The President of Tanzania,
opened Kondoa Integrity School in September.
 [here is Godsave and
Frank [from SBC] with President Kikwete on
the left. We are thankful for President Kikwete
taking the time to come to our school]
- Julia Lowry from Perimeter Church came to join the
HIV/AIDS dept. in October.
- Jenny Willdigg has sold her farm and is coming to
join Imara at the end of February. Mike is so looking forward to
having Jenny as his personal assistant.
- Being able to see our family in Australia and New
Zealand
Prayer points:
- HIV/AIDS 3 week course 12th January
- Mike and Godsave travelling to USA in February
- Help and wisdom for Mike as to how to improve and
establish effective processes in our current work- especially in the
mercy project areas.
- Leadership and
project leadership seminar work in January.
- Effective ways of teaching and introducing DNA,
Discipleship and Christian worldview work to our leaders throughout
northern and central Tanzania
- Evangelism work Stanley and Paul are planning with
the schools and colleges in 2008
- Jenny Willdiggs'
preparation to come late February
Thank you to those of you who have
given to us personally from across the world in such a generous way, we
appreciate you. We wish you all a happy and peaceful Christmas.
Lyndall & Mike, Arusha,
Tanzania.
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