Day 4 - The Day Is Done

Another day draws to a close and we feel blessed and humbled by what is going in here.

The team are all still in fine form and one if us has stayed at home with "Mission Tummy". I went to see them at lunchtime and they were feeling a lot better but felt a bit to weak to work - please pray for them that they have a good night's sleep and will feel strong enough for work tomorrow (Friday).

It has been a tough day in many ways but the teams keep soldiering on. The Youth team are having a great time and the programme keeps being refined and improved on. The big end to the week will be the bonfire night on Saturday - the last big event before the Sunday services and should be good fun.

The Community Team had a packed day and are working brilliantly with several new initiatives. The earlier success with Bingo was repeated at another "Over 45s" session; this time complimented by Darts and Boule. They love them all and we hope and pray that the Elders will build in this success and keep the interest and meetings going. They ended their long day with the Uj Akli social event - a joint evening of fun with cakes and squash. We had some brilliant English clog dancing from one of the team along with the team doing some singing ... "Britain's Got Talent" should come out here! It all ended about 10.30pm so another long day when you remember our village prayer meetings start at 7.30am

Not only a long day but today was particularly hot. This does not help when you remember it is set up day for the medical team in Gyula having now moved from Akli. The team are seasoned pros when it comes to this exercise but it is always still a challenge with new faces on the team and circumstances are never the same each year. Never the less the rose to the challenge and all aspects if the team's work was up and running by lunchtime. Some improvisations always need to be made and today was no exception and small, plastic coffee cups we used for taking urine samples. We thought about trying to reuse ones that the team had used for drinks but decided that a sugary drink's residue may just mean that blood test results were a touch unreliable!?!
Everyone has been working incredibly hard since we came out, trying to make good use of every minute. This takes its toll and today some weariness could be picked up in many of the team' faces. This could be seen most evidently in the Children's team in the school and by lunchtime many were flagging. Chatting things over, along with some lunchtime food, we pushed on and the afternoon was okay.

Please pray for energy levels to be high a nd that weariness does not creep in.

Thanks for your thoughts, prayers and blogs.
Time for sleep.