Christmas

We had a very relaxed Christmas this year!

We managed to find a turkey and even cranberry sauce, so Christmas dinner was a real feast.

After skyping friends and family from the early hours of the morning, we went to church to celebrate the birth of Jesus with a small group of good friends there.

We then came home and spent the rest of the day with our pastor, Spencer, and his wife Tinderay, and also the Matsveru family (David, Florence, Loretta and Kundi). The Matsveru family are from Zimbabwe and Spencer and Tinderay are Hereros from Namibia, so we were a great mix of cultures and traditions... especially around Christmas time. None of us had family in Windhoek, and it was great to be together.

For all of our differences we shared the most important things in common; a love for the Lord Jesus, a desire to celebrate his birth, and a love of good food.

We ate, talked, played games and generally had a great time!

Married Accomodation for NETS

Namibia Evangelical Theological Seminary (NETS) has been providing accomodation for up to 40 single students, but only two families. This has meant that married men have left their families behind in towns and villages while they came to the city to study for up to four years.

Many of us at NETS have been concerned about this, and over the summer break we have begun to do something about it. With financial support from Maitland Evangelical Church, we have converted four rooms which were designed for single students into married accomodation.

We enjoyed working together as a family on this project ourselves. It warms my heart to see Noah develop a passion for power tools! There is still work to be done... I would like to build an extension to the kitchen area and to create some recreational spaces around the campus.

By western standards the rooms will be cramped and very basic, but 4 extra families will be living together and joining the NETS community this year... and that is exciting.

We are hoping that having these extra families on campus will mean that we can begin to offer support and training to the wives of pastors as well.