Tuesday, February 28, 2006

state eight

welcome to the hotel california

Saturday, February 25, 2006

go west

phil flew out to arizona (state seven) with mal today for meetings

Friday, February 10, 2006

i love bono

"There is a continent—Africa—being consumed by flames.
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did—or did not do—to put the fire out in Africa.
History, like God, is watching what we do."
you can click here to read all of bono's remarks at the npb

Monday, February 06, 2006

simplicity

woohoo! it's the end of the journey for our things - we collected it all from the shipping agent's warehouse today, a month and a day after it left sheffield

it's funny and healthy and good - we've been here nearly two years now, the process has been one of simplification, our story is that our amazing God provides every thing we need!

Sunday, February 05, 2006

steelers win


the pittsburgh steelers beat the seattle seahawks 21-10 to win the fortieth superbowl in a strange, somewhat less-than-convincing game

Saturday, February 04, 2006

home again

phil arrived back safely this evening, having covered about 1600 miles in total and touched the ground in two new states, alabama and mississippi

congratulations to dave and janelle on the birth of benjamin owen!

Friday, February 03, 2006

home this week

is a school gym in long beach mississippi
after hurricane katrina it was converted into temporary accommodation for volunteers helping with the relief work creating 'camp coast care'
on one side is a dining and hanging out area and the other is camp beds

they regularly house around 150 volunteers at a time, but this week has been much quieter with 35 here
it's operated by a committed team of volunteers and church leaders in a neat partnership between two denominations

Thursday, February 02, 2006

new porch


olivia and charles pose with miss hortence and her shiny new screen porch

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

look closely


you can see it's a beautiful area, but look closely and you can see almost every home has a white trailer (a caravan) in front of it, where people are living while their homes are rebuilt