Saturday Post -- 04/05/13

"If you go down to the pitch today...". Mum and
Dad with local true-blue Maicol at FT football
school training.

Back when the idea of this blog first came to us in early 2010, our intention was to create a regularly-updated webpage, the idea being that whenever people felt moved to pray for us, they could visit the site and have a fairly current idea of our needs and encouragements; there was no intention to develop a mass international following, hanging on our every click.

Somehow, however, that indeed appears to have happened over the years, and we are aware that many of those who will read this post have made a gander to this page a part of their weekend ritual. And we are, naturally, very touched by this.

So I hope I’m not disappointing you all too much by asking you to permit us a one-week extension to our sabbatical. We have much to share with regard to the past few weeks, most of all my parents’ visit – the happiest of fortnights – but since returning from Santa Cruz on Tuesday morning (Mum and Dad left on Sunday), we have dived headlong straight into another visit, this time receiving Carluci Dos Santos, the executive director of LAM Canada, our sending organisation. Carluci’s visit is briefer – till Monday afternoon – so time is very much of the essence and we hope that, bearing this in mind, you can cope without an essay this week. No booing at the back, now.

While you count down the minutes till next Saturday, why not visit my Facebook page (www.facebook.com/craigdcunningham) where I’ve posted a great many pictures from our time in Trinidad and beyond over the past few weeks?

For those you in the great hordes who usually access the website via Facebook, I guess we’ll have to monicker this one a Boomerang Blogpost.

Still, our prayers need never cease (1 Thessalonians 5:17), so without further ado, here are our latest points for petition and praise…

Prayer

• Pray for our time with Carluci. This is his first visit to the work here in Bolivia. Pray that there would be mutual encouragement, and that LAM Canada and we would be better equipped to support each other in the days to come.
• Several of our friends and colleagues will be seeing plenty of departure lounges over the next few days. Carluci begins his two-day journey back to Canada on Monday. Rachel Peebles, at the end of another three-week visit, leaves Santa Cruz for Glasgow tomorrow morning; and Deborah Holmes, who has provided invaluable support as a visiting volunteer since January, heads home to London via La Paz from Tuesday till Thursday.
• Pray for energy for both of us as we are feeling a little done-in after a break which was both refreshing and exhausting, if you get the picture.

Praise

• Give thanks for Craig’s parents’ safe arrival in Glasgow on Monday lunchtime (and, indeed, the safe arrival of their luggage that evening, having been – shock, horror – delayed in getting to Glasgow due to the having to re-check their bags at Miami airport; congratulations as ever to the Federal Aviation Authority)
•  Give thanks for a tremendously encouraging couple of weeks with Craig’s parents.

¡Que Dios les bendiga!

Craig & Amanda