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Keith and Ida, our Missionary Partners from Mwandi, in Zambia, visited Houston on Sunday 4th July, with their adopted son, Mubita. They took part in the morning service and shared lunch and a slide show in the Church Hall, with members of the congregation. They were delighted to have the chance to express their thanks for the donations of clothes and money that the congregation has recently sent out to help them with their work. They write as follows:
Dear Family and Friends
We arrived back in Scotland at the end of April, and are now about half way through our leave. We have been kept busy and warmly welcomed with deputation work in the Presbyteries of St Andrews and Stirling. We have preached at Church services, visited schools and hospitals and spoken at midweek Church Meetings from St Andrews, Falkland and Elie in the East to Houston and Kildrum in the West and Balfron, Fintrie, Cambusbarron, Clackmannan and Menstrie in the Middle. There have been meetings at 121 George Street with our debriefing, speaking with World Mission staff and at the HIV/AIDS Programme. It has been good to be able to share a bit of our life and work at Mwandi with the Church through the Guild mainly in Edinburgh, and the World Mission Council in Dunblane.
We also enjoyed our time at the General Assembly at the end of May, catching up with all the other concerns of the Church. Ida spoke and thanked the Church for their support for the AIDS Relief Programme at Mwandi.
We are grateful too for the continuing support both material and spiritual we receive from so many congregations and individuals.
The hospital is now in possession of a working scanner which has been donated from Nairn. We have been given baby-clothes and various types of medical supplies to take back to Mwandi. We are fortunate that we are given an extra unaccompanied luggage allowance by World Mission. We have discussed the possibility of gathering materials and sending a container with medical and education materials. That is perhaps something the two presbyteries and associated congregations might like to consider.
We are now looking forward to our visits to London, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Geneva, Montpellier and Perpignon in the last two weeks of July. It is a combination of holiday, Church work and visiting family and friends. (We have still kept up our blog during our time in Scotland and this can be accessed through idaandkeith.blogspot.com.)
We wish you all a good break in the coming months. We have been very fortunate with the weather and have been enjoying sunny days and the long evenings.
With love and every blessing
Keith, Ida, Catriona & Mubita
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