Dear Friends,
IT’S DONE! FINISHED! COMPLETE!
How we thank our Heavenly Father.
Isn’t this wonderful? We really want to thank you for your part in seeing this vision become a reality. We’ve already had the first full group through this weekend as a tester and everything went really well. We finished the final clean just half an hour before the group arrived!
So much has happened since our last blog. Friends came from St.Johns, T.Wells to help with the painting and make the curtains.The builders returned to the work, the wet rooms were completed, they look wonderful and function well. The floors were tiled and a good friend left Tunbridge wells 3am. one Monday morning and started work here at 8.30am. Pete Hillier worked so hard for two days to lay a beautiful floor upstairs.
IKEA gave us a discount on the bunks, mattresses etc and were very helpful indeed on the day of purchase. Special old friends arrived to assemble the bunks and carry out more painting.
A small team came from All Saints Church, Crowborough and worked hard for two days, strimming, mowing, painting and laying a path in a difficult area.
Last to be installed was the kitchen. We were given a beautiful piece of granite and a butler sink and the kitchen was built around that really. It’s lovely and coped well cooking for 32 people this weekend.
To be perfectly honest, we can’t quite believe we’ve reached the end of the line. We are both feeling very tired but elated.
We have so many people to thank. God has been enormously kind and generous to us through His people. It has been like living in the middle of a miracle on times. While at other times, the process has seemed spiritually exhausting.
As with many of our experiences along the way, we so wish we had kept a written diary of events.
We have a good pictorial record and hopefully this will jog our memory.
What we do know is that God has been good and that God has been faithful even when our faith has been small.
So now the real work begins. All the rest has been preparation for the vision to be fulfilled.
Please pray with us that God would send just the right people to us. As Francis and Edith Schaeffer used to pray for their work at L’Abri, ‘Lord send all those you want to be here and keep all others away.’
As for the family, Luke is still in Sweden, though sadly no longer with Emelie. We are looking forward to seeing him this summer.
We can’t believe that Menna will be returning to her third year in September. Her second year was less enjoyable than the previous year which was very experience based. She has a job in Cotswold’s which keeps her abreast of all the new gear for the outdoors. Ffion was three on Sunday 1st July and continues to grow into a beautiful, chatty little girl.
Lloyd has really enjoyed his first year in Bible College. He hasn’t had his results yet but thinks he’s done okay. It’s good to have him living closer.
Well, we must get this blog sent off.
Thank you so much for standing with us over the past couple years.
God bless you and those you love,
Clive, Gay and family
Please check out our website where you will also find photos of the finished bunkhouse.
Just click this link: www.hiraethbunkhouse.com
