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July 2006

Lost Sheep Returns Home

On Saturday 29 July James Julias (12) told us he had been feeling very sick, with chest pains, headache, stomach problems and finding breathing difficult. Angela took him to the AIC medical centre where he was diagnosed with malaria, amoebic dysentry and asthma from pneumonia. We got medicines for him, but clearly he needed somewhere safe to go to be cared for while he recovered.

He told us he had an uncle living on the outskirts of Mwanza. His mother and father have separated and remarried and James was not welcome in either home. However, when we (Max, Angela, David and Julie) took him to his uncle, he was willing to take James into his family and care for him. But obviously this is a big change. He already has 3 children to care for and the family clearly had little money. James is also quite disturbed, having run away from several relatives before.

So James and his relatives need a lot of prayer and support as they face these changes. James needs a school transfer from another city in Tanzania. He also needs to learn to trust his uncle and aunt and the new family, and to stay at school rather than running away again.

This is really what we are trying to do. Our vision is to return kids to their homes or to supportive families and help them remain there. Sometimes, of course, it may only be when kids are really struggling and at their lowest that they even think about that.

But praise God for a little lost sheep returning home, and for the welcome his uncle offered. 

July 2006

Thanks for sending the 2006 Glasgow-Mwanza team

A big thank-you to St George's-Tron Church and others in Glasgow for coming together to send 5 people - Terry, Rebekah, Neil, Julie and David - this year to be involved in our work amongst other things in the church. Thank you for providing all the financial support they needed to come, and for praying for them and for sending football shirts and other gifts which the children really enjoyed. 

Please send more people next year.

Thanks for all the football shirts!

A big thank-you as well to St Paul's High School in Glasgow who sent lots and lots of wonderful football shirts. The children really love them and you can see how smart they all look in them in the pictures on the rest of the website. So thank you for parting with your well-loved tops and for giving us so many. We'll take more next year if you want to send them!

July 2006

New Website Launched!

We now have a website to share news from our ministry and to raise the profile of what we are doing. Tell your friends about the site and our work!