Very warm season’s greetings from a very cold Wales.
Our love and thanks to all who have supported us for so many years. How can we ever repay you?
It’s very odd looking back at a previous blog, we find ourselves in a very similar situation, freezing temperatures and frozen pipes. We are really hoping they don’t burst again. We thought this year might be different with our new heating system installed but the temperatures here have been extraordinarily low for this time of year, minus sixteen we’ve heard!
The new residents at Min yr Afon seem to be thriving despite the cold weather. The hens are still laying (November to February they are less productive) and our newest residents, four beautiful Jacob sheep. Have a look at the story at the end of Genesis chapter 30. We thought we would get them ahead of the bunkhouse opening, in order to domesticate them as far as possible, so that children and youngsters can pet them. At present, two will eat from our hands, though whether through friendliness or greediness we are not sure!
We have recently become members of Living Word Church Carmarthen. We are very happy there amongst a loving fellowship. Our pastor Matt Bownds has a wonderful teaching ministry. Have a look at the website (link above).
We hope you will be as pleased as we are to hear that at long last, the architect’s plans along with all the other surveys have now been submitted to the planning department. Praise the Lord. We will now have to wait between five and eight weeks to hear from them. Please continue to pray for a successful outcome. We have to confess we thought we would be up and running by now. Our next job is to raise the money needed to complete the vision we have.
FAMILY NEWS
It was our joy to celebrate the 70th wedding anniversary of Gay’s parents in September. We feel enormously privileged to have in them, such an example of faithfulness and commitment. They continue to be very loving and supportive and of course take great delight in their great grand daughter.
Luke was 30 this year! He is living and working in Sweden at the moment. This is where Emelie’s family live. He will be there until next summer at least. After that who knows, he still has the wander lust! We look forward to seeing him over the Christmas period.
Menna has commenced her degree course in Outdoor Education at Trinity St. David’s University in Carmarthen and she is absolutely loving her course. This term has concentrated on river and coastal work Brrrrrrrrrrr! Take a look at a few of her photos.
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Lloyd is in his second year of serving at St. John’s Church Tunbridge Wells. He’s very happy there and we hear great things about him. He’s now praying about his future and at present he’s thinking of theological college. Lloyd will be with us for Christmas. How wonderful that we’ll all be together.
Ffion is now 17 months old and she’s as busy as a proverbial beaver. She’s been walking for quite a while and her language is just kicking in. She loves feeding the chickens and throwing sticks into the river. She has just started sleeping through the night. It has been a long time in coming but Menna is really grateful she’s got there at last. She’s very beautiful!
Clive and Gay
We were invited to a very Jesus centred wedding in the autumn in Tunbridge Wells. It was just lovely seeing old friends who we miss enormously. There were so many more we wish we could have seen.
Clive has experienced his first surgery free year in five years, for which we are very thankful. He is in reasonable health but gets pretty tired fairly quickly. He is in the process of gradually putting up some new fencing to move the sheep around the property. They make great lawn mowers when the ground is too soft for the mower, and they get good fresh grass.
Gay LOVES living here, enough said!!
So dear friends, we hope that by the time we next write to you, it will be to say that the work is under way.
Would you pray with us, that there will be no further hold up. We have felt quite disconsolate at times, faithless, impatient people that we are. As we look back, it probably won’t seem as long and tedious a process as it has been to live through.
Please pray about our funding. The architect gave us a ball park figure of £100.000!! We are sure we’ll do it for less but as you can see we will need to raise a considerable amount.
And please pray that ‘Hiraeth Bunkhouse’ will achieve its potential for Jesus sake.
Praise God for all His faithfulness in so many ways
We wish you all a wonderful time over this Christmas period. How blessed we are to know what Christmas is all about. JESUS.
With warmest love and God’s richest blessings,
From all the Pritchards xx
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