Mrs. Ross dressed in purple is such a fun person. I put her testimony on here in December of 2009, and we've become good friends. I love to visit, and not just because she gives me millionaire bars. I should have put this on with the photo of Timothy on the slide in an earlier post, but that is where the kids went sledding in the mall.

We had an outing to the penguins and the Scratch Patch. See all the little rocks on the ground? They're semi precious stones you can collect...for a price.

Berdine and Michelle Frew visited us for a few days after the kids went to the Worldview Summit Camp. The 3 girls went up Table Mountain, while I had a peaceful, relaxing time waiting in the car. After awhile, I finished the work I had brought with me, and hopped over to a bench where I could see this beautiful view of Cape Town, marred only by this sign that makes a mom nervous when her daughter is tromping somewhere else on this same mountain.

Church in Khayelitcha was rough today. The pastor's son was shot and killed this morning, at 2 a.m. for his cell phone.

It's not every day we go into Khayelitcha, and I sort of wished I had our camera, but I never want to look like a tourist when we're doing ministry--we sort of stick out like sore thumbs enough. If I had had our camera, I would have been chasing little kids around with it, trying to capture their eyelashes. I love curly eyelashes! Sweetness personified.

In the absence of Khayelitcha pictures, I'll dig deep into the archives of this past month to find something interesting to my hordes of readers.


We went to see Christmas lights in December. My friend Margie organizes us into masses of walkers, though this year I was a roller, in a wheelchair. The kids loved pushing me on the downhills, but Paul got the tough, up-hill stuff, poor guy.

We didn't decorate the whole house, by any means, but we made the corner by the fireplace look respectably Chrismasy.

Devine came to stay with us over Christmas and for a week. She and Evangel loved trying out Evangel's new donut maker. It's so cool. It works like a waffle maker. You put a tablespoon of batter into each donut mold, press down, and voila! 7 mini donuts! Just what I needed. The rule is: no donut maker unless we have company to eat them up. No wonder we have so many people over.

Dad & Mom, Evangel is wearing the dress you gave her, and Josh is playing with the Legos you gave him for Christmas!

Here's a shot of our Timothy sledding in the mall snow! It's for real, just came out of a machine instead of out of the sky. Don't laugh at the boy for wearing shorts sledding, at least he was wearing shoes! A lot of the kids there took their shoes off at the beginning. Cherish tried that too when we went 5 years ago.

Yesterday was our big outreach at the Pavilion in Muizenberg. We woke up to thunder storms that morning, so our usual crowd was MUCH smaller this year, but still much bigger then other days of the week.

Paul preaches with his chalk board, while the rest of us pass out tracts and try to lead people to the Lord.

This morning at breakfast, we all compared notes on what happened yesterday. Evangel had the funniest story. She was walking with one of the Uys girls and they offered a tract to a lady who was loaded down with all her beach stuff, like a cooler, umbrella, towels etc. She wanted a booklet, but didn't have a free hand to accept it. The girls were perplexed, but not the lady. She told them to just stick it in her cleavage! That was definitely a first in passing out tracts. I'm glad it was the girls and not the boys.

Today we celebrated the end of THE GREAT INTERNET CRISIS! 10 days without Internet access felt way too long for us, and we're very thankful to be back on line. I'm taking a little bit of my joy out on this blog! And the rest goes to writing the prayer letter which I need to send.