Happy New Year! 

There were some wonderful highlights for us in the last few months of 2021…

• Phoebe came out of plaster and made a complete recovery from her broken leg!
• We were reunited as a family at the start of November after nine weeks away from Nick! Cue the joyful airport scenes… 
• Serin, our cattle herding neighbour who we shared the gospel with way back pre-COVID returned from Senegal and told us how he often sits and thinks about Jesus and it makes him happy, which in turn made us pretty happy!
• Nick and the team pulled off a fantastic graduation ceremony with 100 guests – check out the photo above of the students in their snazzy gowns!
• The ordination of Charles, one of last year’s students (despite winning the ‘longest church service we have ever been to’ award it still makes the highlights list).
• A great Christmas day celebrating with the Christians in the village and being fed at every compound we visited.

Alongside these highlights, we are very grateful to God for a good first term with four lovely, humble, hungry students. We thought George should get a special mention. He is from the church at Kartong where Charles is a pastor. He applied to SOW having seen the difference the training at SOW made to Charles’s preaching. It is such an encouragement to us that the training here is making this kind of impact! It would be great to pray that George would be a faithful and encouraging co-worker for Charles in the ministry at Kartong. On a separate note, all the students this year have very low literacy levels. Harriet began some English lessons with them last term and this will increase over this term. Pray for them to improve rapidly so that they might better access the main course.