Seven and Ben are having a great time with Jack and Alan and Beryl. They got back from Kasaka yesterday having built a playground - hopefully this time not on the site of the next classrooms to go up. Alan has just ordered those!
Today they hope to go to the farm and join teh housegroup that Alan nad Beryl run. Tomorrow its safari and next week back in the schools at Kytume and Kasaka
They are fine except for a close encounter with a lizard - best ask Ben
Hi guys, well im back in romania...therefore the blogging has started again
well we arrived In Romania at around 16.00 local time yesterday and got to Bacau around 22.00 had some dinner and came to Casa Albert (the Hospice run by Cry in the Dark) i love staying here and im soooo excited to be back in Romania...casa albert has once again changed and improved :) everytime i come here its looking better and better...the swimming pool is now installed and working, the grass is through either side of the drive and the paths are paved and have handrails...its beautiful!!!
so this week we are getting everything ready for the first group of volunteers, they arrive on saturday! so today we are going to Casa Lumina to check the foundations and spend some time with the kids down there...i cant wait to see them!! They are so cool teehee
If you guys can pray i would be really gratefull...i met a girl when i was here in March last year and we promised her we would visit her...she was very poorly in march and gave me her number....i have tried to call her and cant get her....i dont know if she is ok...steve has said we can look for her as i have her address scribbled on a piece of paper.... but im finding it quite hard that i cant find out if shes ok...i spose its part of what we do...maybe its a learning curve...but please pray that we dont have trouble finding her...i dont make promises easily...and i dont want to let her down!
thanks guys for your continued support...I will keep you informed
Lodza love in jesus
Beth Daisy xxx
Seven and Ben Lasky are with a friend Jack at Chez Went in Masaka Uganda. They arrrived safely and had a great time on Sunday night at the fellowship that Alan and Beryl organise.
Yesterday they were emant to visit the farm that Love in Action were recently able to buy and they idid some computer maintenance work in th internet cafe in the morning.
The plan is to visit the schools this week
Hi guys
Well its wednesay and i was meant to come home yesterday, but we decided to extend our trip a few days and we are now staying in romania untill thursday...im sure if you know me even a little bit you wil know im really excited abo this.
So far wwe have had a really amazing trip and have been and visited alot of friends we have here in a very short time. we managed to visit the adult institution Ungereni, which is a plac i have been able to visit eveytime i have been in romania since i started coming. we didnt call before we arrived so wernt sure if we would be alowed in, but we were recieved really well and had a really lovly time with the patients and the staff up there, it wasa real joy to visit them.
on the same day we also went to a very poor village, a long way out of the main town, we visited these children at chirstmas and it was really on my heart to go back there. somebody from the church had donated some money for the trip so we were able to buy gifts for these guys. we brought 90 filled corrisants for the patients at Ungereni and we also brought loaves of bread and oranges for the children and there families in the village. we had a really blessed time with the children playing with balloons and handing out sweets and hair bands.
i was also really blessed to be able to spend alot of time at casa lumina this trip, the young people there are so much fun, and they really touch my heart everytime we go there. its really great to dance with them and kind of get lost in their joy.
We have been staying in casa Albert which is the hospice cry in the dark have built. and we had the priviledge of going out with the community team to meet with some of the patients. this meant for steve and i that we got to visit some old friends, that the nurses are now providing care for, but also meet some new people, who will now stay in our hearts. we met the most adorable little boy who has sevire respitory problems and some kind of muscular disease, it was heart rencing to hear him struggle with his breathing, and when i had a little cuddle with him i managed to just pray with him, his mum attends the support group for parents at casa albert and for her this is a real lifeline, if she didnt have this group, she would sit all day, day and night indoors with her baby, listening to him struggle to breath, with no one except the nurse to talk to. we shared jesus with her and told her we would continue to pray for her and victor (her son) and hope to visit her again.
Going out with the nurses also meant we got to visit the hospital (the HIV/AIDS unit) as some of casa alberts patients were in there. steve and i were able to talk with alot of the girls in there, and when we decided not to catch out plane yesterday, the first thing we did was drive back to the hospital, with Jackie, another lady out here with us. we sat and talked to the girls for over an hour and just laughed with them and listened to them....the girls thought HIV only happened in romania, they had no idea it happened in england or any where else in the world. we were really shocked by this.
we are now getting ready to go back to the hospital becasue we tole the girls we would take them some food and drink as alot of them do not eat properly becasue the hospital food doesnt really resembly anything you or i would eat. we are going to use the rest of the donation made from a lady in the congregation to supply these things for the girls.
please pray for us today as we hope to be able to pray for some of the girls, and as it will be very hard to leave the hospital knowing it may be a few months before we return.
thankyou for your support and prayers while im away, it relly makes a huge diference
sorry i waffeled so much...lol and sorry about the appauling spellings (mother dont correct them please hehe)
lodz of love
Beth Daisy xx
a bundle of us made the trek north to support Simon and DoaraMaria as they were inducted as leaders of York Community Church. It was great sharing meals with S & DM and some of their new leadership team. We prayed round their house and a bit around York. Margaret and Bernie bought some great words to the church, Beryl wrote a poem and Neil preached at the induction. All great fun and a powerful time. Simon and Rob are organising a trip to Swizerland at the beginning of May with people from both churches, mainly from the worship teams here and, we think, the eldership in York.
Hi Beth - tried to post some comments but couldnt seem to do so, but anyway its so good to hear what you are up to and so pleased you are doing so well, well done!!!
Hello again!
im getting alright at this blogging stuff....you cant stop me now hehe!
well its tuesday afternoon over here...and you guys are nearly done with your day! thankyou so much for the prayers yesterday, we had a really brilliant time in Mexico, i was really blessed, the project we visited was amazing, and the children where so happy and content, compared to the houses around them they are living in really good conditions, we even had lunch with them, i cudnt quite stomach my mushed up kidney bean thing so steve ate that for me hehe, but everything else was really good...i was suprised hehe! steve played football witht he kids and i had fun on the swings and the roundabout with them, they where content to play, but they had been at school in the morning so some of the younger ones were tierd, so insted of geting the puppets out we just relaxed with them for a while and then headed back to sierra vister, with tommy the guy who is in charge of the orphanage, hes a great guy with a great ministry, and he gave us a little tour of his town, Tomestone...very strange its like something fresh out of a cowboy film..........the people even walk around in cowboy hats and boots lol! but it was informative and nice to learn about it from tommy.
today we have been at a primary school where steve and i did the kids chapel. we used the puppets and they absolutly loved it, steve shared the story of when we were in romania and we gave bread away to the people on the street and we shared a little about cry in the dark, the kids really enjoyed it we think!
tonyt we are heading to tucson, to go to the BSU (teen challenge) as the lady we are staying with (jan) her son plays in the worship band...its a campus outreach to the students, then we will be staying up there for more assemblies tomorrow and to help with the wednesday night childrens church!
anyway guys thats it for now! thanks for your prayers
love love love
Beth.......(and steve) x
Hello!
wel i arrived here safely, and i have just got back from the Agape youth ranch!
it was a little different to what i had expected, as the ranch isnt open yet for teenagers to stay on the year long programme, however we had an amazing time. a youth group from a church out here came out there, and we had an amazing time working together on the ranch! we made paths and mucked out horses and helped the people living there with the everyday running of the ranch, its an amazing place and i really hope i can go back there once its open and running 100%. we had some good times of worship and fellowship together with some brilliant teaching, so it was a really blessed weekend!
we are back in Siearra vista now for the evening and we are just going to chill out, but tomorrow we are of to Mexico, im so excited about this, we get to go to an orphange that steve has been to before, im so excited...theres about 30kids we think....please please pray for us, as apparently there has been alot of dangerous boarder activity lately...but hey...hehe im stil excited...im brushing up on my spanish, and we are taking the puppets in there with us...we're going to use the spanish songs we used with smile in London!
thanks for your prayers guys, we really appriciate them!
god bless
Beth Daisy xxx
Hi Everyone,
We arrived back safely. We have had an amazing time teaching teachers puppetry, creative arts, art & craft and smile mega kids club. We worked with the wonderful Enforcers of the Call team and some of them have got the bug to work with children now, praise God. Then we were really blessed in the children's programmes we did, we saw many children giving their lives to Jesus. We provided all the children with t-shirts, they were thrilled with them. The children were each given a meal, the heartbreaking thing was to watch the children eating while the crows and stray dogs waited for the children to drop scraps around them. We touched approximately 1000 children's lives whilst in Sri Lanka with the gospel and almost 500 teachers.
We went to Galle where the tsunami hit the worst, it was like going to ground zero, the chills ran through us when people described the disaster. The sad thing is there are still people in refugee camps because they still do not have a home.
We had one day off which was wonderful and we were kindly given free accommodation in a beautiful hotel, it was a real blessing, we prayed for the hotel staff and all but 2 gave their lives to the Lord.
There were a couple of bombs go off while we were in Colombo, we also got stopped by armed police and there were some quite scary moments which isn't wise to talk about here. We also sadly had 6 of our puppets stolen and some more of our gear, this was a bit upsetting because these are the puppets we use in schools and all over the world, we prayed the people who took them would use them for the Lord and not just sell them or use them for a toy or even worse stuck in the back of a cupboard.
A few of us fell ill to a nasty stomach bug which put us out for a couple of days but nothing that the Lord couldn't heal. We had an amazing time, we will continue to pray for this nation which is changing.
I could write pages but we will save that for the newsletter.
God bless you all and thank you for your prayers
SMILE Puppet Ministry
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