A spot of good news!

On Monday we discussed through our support figures in the wake of the change from rent to mortgage etc.. After some discussions and calculations it was concluded that last year the amount of gifts and support received into our account was within £100 of the target we need for next year.

This means we have broken even, and I will probably not need to schedule in a support-seeking home trip this spring. This even with the high cost of health care cover in France!

We are supposed to build up a fighting-fund (contingency), but this is probably not a good enough reason to make a trip home, and we may find that we begin to build up that fund anyway if one or two more sources of support appear as our role develops here.

I am so thankful. I think we must be amongst the most blessed Christian workers anywhere! About thirty people a day read the blog. Amazing! I am sure many of those people pray for us. Our November prayer letter has just begun to be distributed. That means even more people praying for us. And we have so many faithful and generous supporters.

Thanks to all of you, and thanks to God.

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