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Welcome to Our Overseas partners: Hilary & Reza, working faithfully for God overseas.

February 2009 - Here is some latest information about them and the conditions they work in for God.
 

We are enjoying the challenges of living in a third world country. It took a little time to get adjusted to the heat and the 9 hour time difference
when we arrived back .  Around Christmas our telephone went out for about 10 days which meant a Christmas without communication!

The local electricity board has problems – today our electricity came on for half an hour at 1.30pm and then for 2 hours from 4pm to about 6pm.
 It has now just come on a little after 11pm. Each day the electricity goes off for an uncertain amount of time, it can be 2 hours or 12 hours.
This makes life just a little difficult, the lap top, the cell phones and the emergency lamp do not have enough time to recharge properly. 
 The water board usually sends us water twice a week. The rest of the time we rely on a water pump fuelled by electricity. The rice cooker is
also useless and the fridge is a little confused.  While you have snow we have nice warm weather at about 35 degrees- which is tolerable when
 the air conditioner works. We try to cool our bedroom down, rejoicing for an hour or two of cooler surroundings. You must realise it also gets
dark here at around 6pm. Our ability to work in these conditions has been greatly reduced.

Attempts are also being made to make the general community temperature hotter, with many small skirmishes taking place causing tension etc.
 All this is in preparation for elections coming up in April. We need wisdom to be in the right place at the right time and not be in places
where things could suddenly flare up.

Tomorrow we travel to one place that the social temperature was quite hot a few weeks ago.  We are taking school bags, pens, pencils and
other things for children who lost every thing when they lost their houses suddenly in December. We are taking school bags for both communities.  We also want to try and sort out the distribution of our children’s magazine. Our distributor still owes almost a thousand pounds for about 800 magazines that have not been paid for. We visited her in December and she gave us only 5% of what she owes us!  Please pray for wisdom.

The next edition of the magazine should have gone to print a week or so ago, but with the limited electricity we are facing difficulties in getting
  the layout sorted out before we send the copy to  for printing. Please pray that when we get back on Thursday we can get the last bit finished.

Thanks for your prayer support.

Hilary & Reza