Hi again everyone. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011. We hope that you have had a good start to the new decade. Our family are having a lovely 'wind down' as we house-sit for some friends in Mt Barker (South Australia). It is nice to have a change from everyday life in Vanuatu, but we find that our thoughts and prayers are still very much with our family and friends over there as we hear news of earthquakes, and small tsunamis in the south of the country, and prison breakouts in Port Vila.
We had a great SU Pacific Region Conference at the SU campsite in Vila from Dec 7 to 14. It was fabulous to meet more of the SU Family from around the Pacific Islands (PNG, Solomons, Fiji, Tonga, NZ and Aust), and to worship together, and share together in bible engagement and in times of sharing our visions for SU ministry in the years to come in each particular country. Albea did a great job of pulling together the organisation for the event, and it was good to have some local Vanuatu delegates, who have had a little exposure to SU in the past, but who now have a much bigger picture of the wider ministry of SU in God's world.
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| Delegates from 6 nations at the SU Pacific Region Conference held in Port Vila, December 2010. |
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| Vanuatu delegates at the Conference |
We spent our Christmas Day with Jon's family at Bridgewater. Only one nephew was unable to make it on Christmas Day, and Lyndell's parents, Allen and Val, have also travelled over from Melbourne to stay with us for a couple of weeks, so it was a special time of having all the family together to celebrate Jesus' Birthday.
Ben is off at a CE Camp this week (he's 14 now, so it's his first year at the Senior Camp!), and Joel will be at CE/SU Junior Camp next week - he is really looking forward to catching up with friends from last year.
