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UKSC is not a university.
By DnA | September 16, 2008
Our work is going well. The task is great. We now have six full time team members and one short term volunteer at Operation World, and more are coming who will be part of our work for a few months or more.Now our problem is beginning to be not enough housing rather than not enough workers. Just think of a really big house with a really big family (cue up Audio Adrenaline singing “Big, Big House”). The new apartment units at Bulstrode will be finished in early November, but when people start moving into them from apartments in the main house, their former apartments will become office or outreach facilities. We’ll be able to stay in our apartment for possibly another year and a half to two years. Did I mention we love it here?
Sunday afternoon on the way home from church, Arnelle asked me if I felt as though I were in a foreign country. I had to think a long time, because I wanted to make sure if somewhere down deep inside I did feel like a foreigner. I know I have a funny accent for these parts and that I get right and left mixed up when I drive, but I just couldn’t find a sense of being in a foreign country. (They say the US and the UK are two countries divided by a common language.)
This week is the bi-annual UK conference (UKSC) for all WEC missionaries in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. If you like to hear English spoken in many different accents, this would be the place for you. All the UK-based missionaries pile into the house and stretch it to the seams, but it’s an amazingly wonderful time of fellowship and learning from each other. Arnelle will host a women’s small prayer group in our place each morning. I’ll meet with a few of the men somewhere else.
So, what aspect of Jesus’ heart has he shown you and asked you to pray for? Arnelle and I have been learning about and praying for the children called “Restaveks” in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. They are Haitian child household slaves who for numerous reasons are taken into “stable” homes where they are fed and clothed poorly, then given work loads that frequently damage their physical development. They receive no education and no love. If it were just a few kids, it would be horrible. How about 400,000? God raised up a champion over a century ago for children in similar conditions in England. Please pray that the George Muellers of our time, called to love and care for the Restaveks, would hear and answer.
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