In transit

There once was a family who were very blessed - with an abundance of wonderful things to do.

In the middle of October this family plunged into a church family camp in Khandala - and emerged refreshed, unscathed and deeply challenged that we are 'the temple of the living God'!

After washing 4 loads (that's right - 4) of laundry (and folding all of that), they in a 3 day period in which they are hosting visitors to JSK, having a staff family over for dinner, organising the on-going work of home-care for people with HIV, preparing for the upcoming World AIDS Day programmes, writing the prayer bulletin, awaiting any day another staff family's second child-birth, and preparing for a 2.5 day Positive Friends Family Bible Camp (starting on Friday the 23rd) and then going for a 10 day trip to the mission hospital in Jharkhand where they previously worked.

And in the middle of all of that, their first-born has to write a 10 page report on the Dodo. What it looked like and what its habitat is. How it resembles ducks and geese. How and why it became extinct.

That first-born would be Asha.

That family would be the Thane-dwelling Eichers.

That time would be now.

We are in transit - but are blessed with a wonderful fund of peace and good humour. May it continue! God is good.

After a simply superb church camp we are gearing up for the next 2 big things - our 90 plus participant/facilitator JSK Positive Friends Family Bible Camp (starting Friday) and then the train-trek to Jharkhand. We leave on Sunday night - the same evening we return from the JSK camp. A highlight is coming back with a one-day stop in Rourkela, Orissa - where Sheba was born, brought up, baptised and married to me (by the same Elder who married her parents!).

We arrive back in Thane at 4 AM on Nov 3rd. Asha and Enoch's school bus will come to our home at 12.30 PM that day to take them to the first day of there new semester.

Deep breath.... and dive!