Moving on

Several months ago, when we decided to go to Liberia, moving out of our house seemed a small task! How wrong could we be!! After 20 years of living in one place and collected endless clutter (let me tell you, teachers are extremely talented at collecting useful clutter!) we have finally moved out. The attic is now groaning with the boxes of stuff we are storing for the future and we have bought a 20 foot container which is on a friends local farm and is now jam packed full of our furniture.  We spent the last week living on a mattress on the floor and a couple of picnic chairs in the main room while we finished painting and cleaning. Our tenants moved in on 8th October and we are now officially nomads. We are staying between relatives, mostly Jenny's mum and good friends from our church, who have a holiday cottage that they let out.

At present we are in the States. We have spent the last 4 days at Charlotte, N. Carolina at SIM International Headquarters. We have had a fantastic time meeting up with some wonderful folk who have worked in Liberia for many years. They told us many of their stories of  how they built the radio station and started the hospital to how they survived the war and their evacuations.

Lunch at SIM USA Headquarters in Charlotte with some of those who have served with SIM in Liberia in the past.

We have listened to some extremely good advice and our brains are now stuffed to capacity with information and we are eager to get to Liberia now and begin our own work.

Before we go though we are saying our goodbyes to family and friends which is a fun but also painful time. We are here at the moment in New York spending time with Matt and Jo and our beautiful granddaughter, Beatrice, and will be home again on 18th October.