Linn's News March 2012

Linn’s News March 2012

Thank you all for your prayers and support this past month. It has meant so much to me at a difficult time healthwise.

The Schools

All the children are now back at school. The children arrived back at the Annexe School feeling very excited. The new extension of a computer room is now finished and the school is looking incredibly smart.

Meanwhile I missed the start of school in the main college, because I was recovering from a week in hospital. However, things went very well. The sixth form arrived in great style. They had discovered a rusty old double-decker bus somewhere. With parental help they got it going, painted it red and arrived brandishing Union Jacks. What they were unaware of is that this year we are doing a whole school project on Great Britain, followed by a project on the Olympic Games, so arrival in the next best thing to a real London bus was very appropriate.

Term started with the traditional service in the Cathedral. This year’s theme is Forgiveness. That is the theme that I am using to begin the first library project with my classes. The children have been listening to stories from the Bible and they are now busy producing posters with appropriate verses, which we plan to display around the school.

Our new teachers have all made a great start and there is a real team spirit as they support each other.

The churches

The city churches are now up and running again after a long summer break. It was good to get back into the English church, which has been pretty full every week since we started services again.

Bishop Peter and his wife, Sally are due back from UK now. It will be good to have them back at the helm.

The Country

Nothing changes very much. Although the country has not yet gone into a real recession like Europe, prices are escalating almost every day, due to other problems and the poor are finding it very difficult to feed their families. We have had more children knocking on the door for food recently.

There is still a huge drugs problem. It is hard to know what the answer is other than a massive Revival to bring people to the Lord. We need that to start with leaders of the country.

Personal news

Most of you will know that I was hospitalized with diverticulitis before the term began. It took me a week back at home before I was ready to start back to work.

The surgeon had told me that he would operate in March to remove what is causing the problems, which have been going on for five years now. I received various bits of advice from UK and from my family doctor here, which unsettled me immensely. However, the Lord has been in everything. My doctor spoke to the surgeon, saw all my results of tests etc and now the plan is to operate in May. That will give me time to recover fully from the infection and to get fit enough to cope with the operation. It is all a bit draining emotionally as I have also been trying to cope with a very restricted diet. However, today I was given a little more freedom, so out come the recipe books and the challenge is on!

Prayer points.

1.    Please pray for the government as they try to get to grips with problems. Pray for discernment. Pray for them to seek the Lord’s wisdom.

2.    Give thanks for the good start to the school year. Please pray for protection over the staff, especially the English staff. There have been some strange things going on among us, not least health problems. Pray for healing and for spiritual protection. Pray for Orfa, who has had to return to Columbia unexpectedly, to look after her sick parents.

3.    Give thanks for the doctors that are treating me. Give thanks also for the Christian Community Group here who have offered to help me through the operation in hospital, when the time comes. They will be an answer to my prayers.

4.    Pray for our Anglican churches in Paraguay to grow.

5.    Pray for the Lord to protect the Annexe School and its new equipment.

Linn Tedman working for the Church Mission Society, Watlington Road, Oxford, OX4 6BZ email:- ltedman@hotmail.com

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