Curtains!

Curtains!  Most of you know that was my "job" for this trip...to make curtains so Rodger and Lynne could move in their house and have a sanctuary away from eyes that watch every move of the strange new people moving in!  below see picture of the completed kitchen curtains and one panel of the bedroom curtains.  Progress has been slower than we would like.  However there are so many praises in the midst of this.  

The sewing machine was donated by wonderful friends of the Schmidts from So. Africa.  (That frees up some of my support funds for other needs). The fabric was picked out also in So. Africa and they just estimated what would be needed.....not even having exact measurements for the windows.  And the expenditure for that was much less than budgeted and we will have plenty of extra fabric for other   

uses.  Then, if you saw the house and all the projects going on there (plumbing, carpentry, floor stripping, staining and sealing, among lots of others).....we had no idea of how we could work there.  But the guest house where we are staying was gracious enough to let us use their conference room with huge tables and plenty of room to work.  Lynne and I have had quality time and wonderful talks while working together on this.  I feel so blessed by her friendship.  Hopefully the kitchen curtains can go up tomorrow.  And we will begin on the living room and bathroom ones.  Don't worry...I will post completed pictures of them all hung by the time we leave next week.

The guys are also progressing slowly on the house.  Today they traveled to Nampula to buy more supplies.  Please pray for their continued strength.  Also for Mike Hagar who is not feeling well....some kind of respiratory thing that has him really wiped out.  

You will enjoy reading Mike's stories of their drive here.  That brings up another huge praise.  We don't know whether it has hit the news there but there has been political unrest between two government parties here that has progressed to riots and shooting.  This happened in the area where Mike and Rodger had their trailer axle break during their drive.  The UN is now telling any non-Mozambiquans to avoid the area completely. What a blessing our guys were there several days before this happened and made it through.  

Any way...the weather is hot but the breeze comes up by late day which helps cool things down.  The electricity and the Internet has been sporadic.  But the food is wonderful. Lots of crustaceans! 😄

More soon.  Thanks for your prayers and support.  

Love, Diane