DAY TRIP TO NIAGARA

HI ALL YOU BLOGWATCHERS

We have had an amazing day - probably our one and only 'tourist' day. We boarded a coach at 7:00 this morning - what a nice touch that God should provide the founders of 'Fuego' with a tour company called 'Chariots of Fire'. The driver had a great sense of humour and it was great to be able to see some of the Ontario countryside during the 90min drive to the falls at Niagara. The autumn colours are at their spectacular best - gold / yellow / orange / flame red - and we saw black red and grey squirrells.

At the falls we went up the Skylon Tower which gives amazing views over the falls. Then we went on one of the 'Maid of the Mist' boats - I wondered about the wisdom of exposing Mo to this (she's not great with boats) but she absolutely loved it. We all had plastic capes to wear but we still got soaked!

We are back in the hotel and snacking on Starbucks sandwiches and tea. We will walk down to the church in a few minutes just to check where it is. Tomorrow we will go to the morning meeting before the start of the School of Mission with Heidi Baker on Monday.

Love to you all - Terry & Mo

HI - IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE IN BLOGGERLAND?

A lot has happenned since our last blog in the summer - after our return from Sierra Leone in May Mo seemed to be suddenly getting worse - but that is sometimes the way with Alzheimer's

I was beginning to feel very despondent and wondered whether Freetown had been our last overseas trip together - but - as usual with us - God was busy making much better plans!!!!!!!!

In September I heard about a conference coming up in Toronto where Heidi Baker would be speaking - the best tribute I ever heard about Heidi was from Bill Johnson of Bethel (Redding - California) who said "When I grow up I want to be like Heidi!" Bear in Mind that Bill may well be just about old enough to be her Dad! Heidi and her husband Rolland have seen over 8,000 churches planted in Africa in the past ten years - around 50 people raised from the dead - and just recently Rolland was amazingly healed of terminal vascular dementia - THAT GOT OUR ATTENTION BIGTIME!

We are making plans to take a team from River Church, Maidenhead to work with Heidi and Rolland Baker's team in Freetown next May.

Beacuse of Mo's condition we live on State Benefits (Thank you Mr Brown!) so we have no spare money, but we began to pray about going to the conference. After a couple of weeks we received a large cheque from someone who owed us money and I thought this is it! But God said we were to give most of it away - sometimes I wonder about God! We didn't argue but I didn't feel good about it. THEN during the next six weeks God restored back to us five times what we had given away - more than enough for us to go - HALLELUJAH!

The day I began to make plans to go to Toronto, Mo began to show some small signs of improvement - she seemed to be just a bit more aware of what was going on and was giving us some 'cheek'! Some of the lovely people who help me to care for Mo noticed the difference too!

SO - on Friday 23rd October Air Canada will be taking us to Toronto where we will have two Sundays in the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship as well as attending the conference.

This is us enjoying our first ever upgrade on the flight to Freetown last May - if you like you can pray that Air Canada will do the same.

If I am able I will add some Blogs while we are in Toronto - so do log on to www.fuego.org.uk and check it out - some comments from you would be great - especially if God gives you something to share with us.

PLEASE PRAY FOR US

MUCH LOVE - TERRY & MO