| A letter from Simon Guillebaud, 8 July 2008 | |
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8 July 2008 Dear Warriors, I hope this finds you going great guns. Here's a little update: We are now back in the UK. The return flight was as good as can be expected. In the coming weeks there will be lots of preaching and sharing about the work. May they be deeply anointed times with many lives impacted. Healthwise things for me haven't been great. I've been feeling ropey for about three weeks, have lost weight I can't afford to lose (it was probably dysentery), but things have dragged on and I feel generally weak, similar to that episode 3 years ago when I spent 6 weeks in bed. I'm writing this from bed now actually. I seriously hope and pray God touches me soon as the schedule will be quite demanding in the coming weeks. Hence wanting to get your prayer back up. Lizzie went to see the health visitor today and our concerns about Zac after his episodes with worms and amoebes were dispelled, whilst apparently Grace is underweight, although she looks like an absolute peach to us! On the night of our return, we had a trustees meetings, and as I ran through all the stuff that we as GLO have been able to achieve this year, it was incredibly encouraging. I am blown away myself at all that has happened, and I honestly put it down to you guys and the fact we are a movement rooted and soaked in lots of prayer. Please keep it up! One big development which I'm sure you'll be keenly interested in: we've identified the person to run the conference centre! It was puzzling to me that the Lord didn't seem to be answering for ages. Justabout every prayer request I send out to you lot seems to get answered almost immediately, and yet for over a year I've been asking you to pray for an outsider with the right skill set to come in and run the centre for a year or two and train up a Burundian before handing it over. I wondered why no answer came. And then realized that probably the Lord wanted a Burundian from the start! The person chosen (unnamed as yet because they're still employed elsewhere) has most of the required qualities (vibrant faith, total integrity, administrative skills, very networked, speaks English, French and Kirundi fluently), and we can bring in experts for staff training and such like. I am excited by this development and will share more in due course. My new construction business partner has just been in Dubai to buy some trucks, and that all went smoothly. His wife has had 4 miscarriages, including 2 at eight months. She is now nearly 7 months pregnant. They have been through so much. So over the next few months please hold up Emmanuel and Frenarie, that their little life comes through without any problem. Amazingly, construction is about to or has started on three of our partners' sites for schools (YFC and SU) and a Bible college (PTI), all funded through Fields of Life, God bless them massively! That'll do for now, thanks again so much for sharing the adventure, Simon Guillebaud |
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