Still Praising!!!

Chris writes: life continues to race by with great excitement...had a great time in Albania with the OM Kosova team...we have one person who is booking his flight to come here in June for our working party...

..........had a great time last week with OM founder and envisioner George Verwer who came to Kosova......still going strong at 73!!

......last night I posted a message on facebook saying that we needed a laptop....within a minute and before had even had time to pray someone said they had one!!!! how amazing....give God the glory...He is making this happen not us!!

off to Prague for a conference tomorrow with ISAAC...please pray all goes well....

FA cup over....onto Champions final on Saturday.....!!!!

still Keeping on...keeping on!!

Chris writes...life continues at such a pace....both the drug education sessions went well....we had a good friend from UK here for a week who kept us busy and we kept her busy!!!

Last week we met with the landlord of 'House of Hope' to put some furniture inside and he gave us a key!!!! We start renting from June.

Feels like it is really happening!!

We have had a few people saying they want to come and help us in June to get the place open...we still could do with a few more!!

Tomorrow we are off to Albania for a retreat...pray that we get refreshed and renewed to prepare us for what is looking like a busy summer!!!

And Chelsea are in the cup final on Saturday.....does life get any better!!

............oh and we have had the fridge repaired....Praise God!!!


....................but the week was not without pain as we learnt of a friend who has borrowed money from loan sharks over here and is now on the run and seperated from his family...please do pray about this with us

Thanks so much for your support and prayers xx

keeping on keeping up!!

Chris writes...do you find it hard to keep up with life sometimes? Feel like it is just racing past you in a blur??


Things are going so well and God is just blessing us amazingly....settling into our new home...made some bookcases!!...talking and praying about our plans for the centre...talking and praying about our other exciting plans for the summer....(young/at heart people have you heard about OM Transform...come to Kosova!!)... other new ministry opportunities.....held a drug education talk which was supported and appreciated by our church....part two is next week....!! Wow!!

But not all is perfect...still problems with our fridge...our van could be on it last wheels..!!

.................and it is still raining today!!!

..................................................there is an air of expectation around here!!

Please pray that I can keep both feet on the ground and my eyes fixed on Him!!

God You are still amazing!!!...Part two!!!!

Chris writes: so we had a really good meeting with the landlord....

Our friends even had a Scripture, Romans 5: 1-5, which we shared with him.

We have agreed to start renting the premises from June, and from 11th - 25th June plan to have a working party here in Gjakova...... for anyone willing to come and help us get the place fitted out with decorating, kitchen etc....more news in our newsletter....but do check your diaries now!!













Now we need your prayers and support more than ever!!!

Happy Easter!!

God You are still........amazing!!!

Chris writes: doesn't God just constantly amaze you?

We are now feeling quite settled in our new home and have even had two seperate people staying in my office/our spare room.

We are looking at the ministry now and our vision to open a 'lighthouse' in the community.

We have not really even had time to worry where the finances and people power was going to come from to make this vision a reality...God has not stopped blessing us!!

We have had people giving financially and very generously over the last few weeks and also news of a new team member who will be joining us in September!!

We also met with a couple who have given us some wise council and the confirmation to step out in faith......we do not have everything we need but feel we need to arrange to have a working party come out here in June and help us make this dream become a reality.

We also have a couple from the UK here at the moment...some of our supporters but so much more......friends..parents!! who have just so encouraged and blessed us......

So it is time to step out...we meet with the landlord tonight!!

Praise The Lord.......forget not all His benefits!!

How easy we can forget....!!

Chris writes: we are now settling into our new apartment and can call it our home!! We moved here last Monday, 19th, so just over a week ago. One week to the day we had most of the furniture and carpets we need and even had the wachine machine plugged in!! Lorraine was so happy and we have done about five loads in two days!!! We have also been unpacking boxes, some of the things, such as our wedding crockery....the Denby.......was last seen about 4 years ago when we first moved here!!

GOD is so GOOD!! But how quickly we can forget!

We have not had a proper home of our own since last May and so as you can imagine are soooo enjoying it at the moment! We can however quickly start to take things for granted.

Am reading in Deuteronomy at the moment and as the Children of Israel stood listenning to Moses while standing on the banks of the Jordan, it had been 40 years since they had their own homes.....they had grown up being NFA (No Fixed Abode). Yet when they settled how quickly they forgot!!

"Help us not to forget Your Blessings Lord!! Amen!"

Thanks for your support and prayers for our ministry in Kosova xx

Yeh...Praise God!!!

Chris writes....well after six weeks here and being almost literally up to our neck in snow...at last the snow has gone and.........we have found a new home!! Praise God!!

It has been tough for us both being in this 'waiting pattern'......I tend to internalise things and so have become depressed......while Lorraine shares her worries with me! We know it has been for a reason and I believe (and pray) that we will come out of it stronger. We have learnt more about ourselves, about each other and most importantly about the God we serve.

The apartment only has some sofas and chairs and today we have (almost) got a bed and also a wardrobe!!

Praise God...He is so Good!!