Home Thoughts From Abroad

Ok, I am not a fan of television, I’m more the book and music kind of guy. But I do like The Amazing Race because it is like a travelogue on adrenaline. Sunday night’s show was set in Kuala Lumper. What a treat! The place looked amazing, clean and full of life. We can’t wait to get there and have a look around for ourselves. If you are interested that segment airs again tonight on ABC at 8 o’clock.

Okay, I have been pretty busy getting ready to go to Malaysia. But I did have a minute to drop in to Locke’s last week, and I caught a few former students before school singing in the music room with Mr. Ewaskiw. They looked like they were having fun!

I am hoping to find the time to drop in one more time before I leave, and I am open to suggestions as to when. We fly out at midnight on the 23rd, so I still have a couple of weeks. Let me know what works. That goes for staff as well. I am still hoping for one final game of golf before I go.

I spent a lovely day today in St. Jacob’s, reminiscing with Nancy and Ann, two fellow graduates of the Class of ’73 of the Atkinson School of Nursing. I don’t think that we have changed too much since our five year reunion in 1978.

Wow, it is hard to think about the next year without the option of spending time with Kim and Larry. We have had incredible times together enjoying great food, laughs, great conversations, tears, prayer and Bible study and just enjoying talking with others who share our love of travel and living in another culture.
Their front porch is the best place to listen to the music from Harris Park, and there we just always feel so much at home. We are going to miss you so much! Thanks for a wonderful evening.

A nice little breakfast, or so we thought, with Riz and Carmen Ocampo, with whom we have shared many pleasant hours in cell group and enjoying their famous hospitality. Little did we suspect that there would be thirty dear friends waiting to surprise us at breakfast! What a delight and what a great joy to walk with the Lord and share in His ministry with such Christ-honouring people. Thank you for your fellowship this morning, and God bless you as you serve Him where He has called you.

Actually it is really only people that we will miss- not things. God has so blessed us in our children and now a beautiful little grandson who already is growing up so quickly. I often think of and am humbled by, our missionary friends who went off to serve for four years at a time, without the benefit of computers, a website and even a reliable phone system.
Ben will get to know us and love us as his grand parents on the computer and we are grateful that he has his Watters grandparents and even some great grandparents who can teach him how special a grandparents’ hug is.