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news updates!
I am back in the UK and living with the eMi directer and his wife out in Colchester. Monday and Tuesday's I commute into London to work for Evans Davies Architects and Wed-Fri I stay out in Colchester to work at the eMi office.
and YES, eMiUK now has an official office!!! We just finished painting and are currently moving into a room in the Colchester Baptist Church. nevermind that the wall color is a rather unfavorable shade of yellow...grateful...grateful...grateful :)
the funny thing is, much sooner rather than later, we will likely need to find and move out into a larger office!?! (new paint color! whoot!) Apart from me and Mike, the director, there is Jean, another who does part time with eMi like me, a couple of fabulous interns, David our accountant, and a couple of perspective full-time volunteers! How crazy is that? eMiUK is growing! It's so exciting to know that God is working within our ministry and is continuing to bring people here to serve with eMi!!
on the heavier side of things, Marietta, Mike's wife, has been diagnosed with breast cancer and on top of that needs to have a quadruple heart by-pass in a couple of months time. Mike's first priority, quite rightly, is at home with Marietta, and because we-even though growing-are not a big office. Thus, we dont have anyone to take over as the project leader of our planned trip to Liberia in March and because of this it has been postponed.
The Liberia trip has, however, been rescheduled for the summer term sometime in June 2010. Plans as of now are that I will be participating with that project team and designing a Technical School for an orphanage outside of Monrovia.
Support for participation on future project trips keeps coming in, and for that I can't thank you all enough!!
Prayer Requests
Please pray for Marietta. She as well as Mike are so involved in my life, the other eMi staff and interns, and with eMi as a ministry. They are such lovely people with amazing servant hearts and it is so difficult to see them both going through such a rough time. The eMi UK office wouldn't exist without them. Please pray for a swift and complete healing and recovery from heart surgery as well as treatment of breast cancer. Pray for great doctors and surgeons. Please pray for abundant rest time and perhaps a lack of eMi busyness so that Mike doesn't feel pulled in two different directions. Please pray for the surrounding of their friends and family and people who have time and willingness to help out and be around. Please pray for a presence of peace and courage in Marietta rather than anxiety as she waits for these procedures to take place.
I would also ask for prayer on guidance as to where to find a church home for the next year.
And please pray for the interns and eMi team members who are a bit tossed about at the moment with all the plans for the semester being rearranged on short notice.
And of course prayer for continued support from my friends and family back home. I am scared of losing touch with all of my wonderful friends and growing apart from them as I will be away for such a long period of time. I am really praying that I'm out of my mind even to think of it!
Thank you all so much!
my current financial standing is as follows:
God Bless!!
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